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grok
(encz) | grok,chápat v: [hovor.] slady |
grok
(wn) | grok
v 1: get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the
meaning of this letter?" [syn: grok, get the picture,
comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass,
apprehend] |
grok
(foldoc) | grok
/grok/, /grohk/ (From the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land",
by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning
literally "to drink" and metaphorically "to be one with")
1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes
intimate and exhaustive knowledge.
Contrast zen, which is similar supernal understanding
experienced as a single brief flash. See also glark.
2. Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient
understanding. "Almost all C compilers grok the "void" type
these days."
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-31)
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grok
(jargon) | grok
/grok/, /grohk/, vt.
[common; from the novel Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein,
where it is a Martian word meaning literally ‘to drink’ and metaphorically
‘to be one with’] The emphatic form is grok in fullness.
1. To understand. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. When you
claim to ‘grok’ some knowledge or technique, you are asserting that you
have not merely learned it in a detached instrumental way but that it has
become part of you, part of your identity. For example, to say that you “
know” LISP is simply to assert that you can code in it if necessary — but
to say you “grok” LISP is to claim that you have deeply entered the
world-view and spirit of the language, with the implication that it has
transformed your view of programming. Contrast zen, which is similar
supernal understanding experienced as a single brief flash. See also {glark
}.
2. Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient understanding. “Almost
all C compilers grok the void type these days.”
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