Verb

(grokk)

(slang) To have or to have acquired an intuitive understanding of; to know (something) without having to think (such as knowing the number of objects in a collection without needing to count them: see subitize).

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, year=1961 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Robert A. Heinlein , title=Stranger in a Strange Land , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher= , isbn= , page=107 , passage=I do not grok' all fullness of what I read. In the history written by Master William Shakespeare I found myself full of happiness at the death of Romeo. Then I read on and learned that he had discorporated too soon – or so I thought I ' grokked . Why? }}

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, year=1968 , title=(The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) , first=Tom , last=Wolfe , authorlink=Tom Wolfe , isbn=9780553380644 , passage = Grok ?and then it's clear, without anybody having to say it. }}

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, date= , year=2008 , month=Dec , first= , last= , author=Leslie Anthony , coauthors= , title=Running from Babylon , volume=61 , issue=4 , page=116 , magazine=Skiing , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=He freely plucks notions and verbiage from science fiction to describe everything from mountain-related undertakings to political subterfuge – like "grok ", a term from Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, to denote intuitive understanding. }}

(slang) To fully and completely understand something in all its details and intricacies.

He groks Perl.

I find it exceedingly doubtful that any person groks quantum mechanics.

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, date= , year=2008 , month=August , first= , last= , author=Stanley Bing , coauthors= , title=New Help for Hodads , volume=158 , issue=3 , page=152 , magazine=Fortune , publisher= , issn= , url= , passage=Today we take a few moments to help you grok some of the ways that victims of TU can up their hipness – if we may use that term without being considered old school. }}

Verb

(rare) to stand or insist too much or too long; overstay

* "But they that overstand the day of grace, shall not obtain to cool their tongues so much of this water as will hang on the tip of one's finger." (Bunyan, The Water of Life , 1688)

to stand too strictly on the demands or conditions of.

to sail to the mark at a wider angle than is the normal upwind angle, to go beyond the layline

to have complete or intutitive comprehension, to grok

* "But, Sister, it look like you neither overstand or understand" (Orlando Patterson, The children of Sisyphus: A novel , 1965, p. 192)

(sense) To be neglected and left uncut for too long.

* "When a coppice woodland is no longer cut on its regular rotation the rods from the stool continue to grow and the coppice becomes known as overstood . Sadly, in many parts of the country this is the commonest form of coppice you are likely to see." (The Woodland Way: a permaculture approach to sustainable woodland management. Ben Law. Hyden House 2001. ISBN: 978-1856230094)

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