grok : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: grok	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for grok
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
grok v get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" Synonym(s): grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
grok /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [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, 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."
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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)