GROK

Domain	Definition
Computing	Grok /grok/, var. /grok/ 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.". Source: Jargon File.
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Specialty Definition: Grok

Grok is a slang verb sometimes used by geeks roughly meaning "to understand completely".

The term originated in Robert Heinlein's novel Stranger in a Strange Land, where it is used by a man raised with Martians and literally means "to drink".

A character in the novel (not the primary user) defines it:

"'Grok' means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed -- to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science -- and it means as little to us (because we are from Earth) as color means to a blind man."

Commercial Usage: GROK

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Grok Gazer By Todd Rundgren (reference) Todd Rundgren: Grok Gazer, Visual Concert Hall (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Grok This! Defacing The Music Of Todd Rundgren (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GROK

Anagrams: GROK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "g-k-o-r"
	-1 letter: gor, kor.
	-2 letters: go, or.
	Words containing the letters "g-k-o-r"
	+3 letters: brokage, broking, corkage, corking, forking, gorcock, kerogen, legwork, rocking, rooking, troking, workbag, working.
	+4 letters: brockage, brokages, brokings, brooking, corkages, croaking, crocking, crooking, drouking, frocking, froglike, gasworks, gorcocks, gridlock, grosbeak, kangaroo, kerogens, kilogram, kymogram, legworks, revoking, rockling, skioring, stroking, troaking, trocking, workbags, workings.
	+5 letters: brockages, brokerage, brokering, cockering, forsaking, glasswork, goldbrick, gridlocks, grillwork, grosbeaks, guesswork, kangaroos, karyogamy, karyology, kilograms, knotgrass, knowinger, koshering, kurrajong, kymograms, kymograph, provoking, rebooking, reckoning, recocking, recooking, recorking, redocking, reevoking, relocking, relooking, resoaking, restoking, reworking, rocketing, rocklings, roughneck, skijoring, skiorings, springbok, uncorking, unworking.
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