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groks | gross |

As verbs the difference between groks and gross

is that groks is third-person singular of grok while gross is to earn money, not including expenses.

As an adjective gross is

disgusting.

As a noun gross is

twelve dozen = 144.

As a proper noun Gross is

{{surname|from=Middle English}}, originally a nickname for a big man, from Middle English {{term|gros||large|lang=enm}}.

groks

English

Verb

(head)
  • (grok)

    • grok

    English

    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).
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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? }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , 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. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , 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. }}

    Usage notes

    * Grok is used mainly by the geek subculture, though it was heavily used by the counterculture of the 1960s, as evidenced by its repeated appearance in Tom Wolfe's “.”

    See also

    (wikipedia) * Heinlein Society

    gross

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • (US, slang) Disgusting.
  • Coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, or impure.
  • * 1874 : Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays
    • But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross . Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • Great, large, bulky, or fat.
  • * 2013 , (Hilary Mantel), ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books , 35.IV:
    • He collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross .
  • Great, serious, flagrant, or shameful.
  • The whole amount; entire; total before any deductions.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • Not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
  • * Milton
    • Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.

    Synonyms

    * (disgusting) (l), (l), (l) * (fat) See also

    Antonyms

    * fine * (total before any deductions) net

    Related terms

    * gro * grody * gross out

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Twelve dozen = 144.
  • The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
  • The bulk, the mass, the masses.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To earn money, not including expenses.
    • The movie gross ed three million on the first weekend.
  • * '>citation

    • Related terms

    * engross * grocer, grocery, groceries

    Derived terms

    * gross receipts * gross weight * gross income ----