VERB
  1. get the meaning of something
    Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?
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How To Use grok In A Sentence

  • Impatient people don't sit still and grok the whole page, check out the archives and figure out what's up.
  • Breaking from TheGreenGrok formula of sharp, cutting-edge pieces on the environment, let's discuss words -- let us surreptitiously slip into the world of the etymologist for a few minutes. Bill Chameides: On Words: 'Global Warming' Meets Astrology
  • It's remarkable that the editors didn't grok this basic fact, and put a halt to the entire ridiculous experiment before it even got started.
  • And while the MagicMouse can be picked up and grokked nearly instantaneously (though it sucks that right-click is disabled by default), the OpenOfficeMouse requires about two days of acclimation according to the FAQ. Open source design and the OpenOfficeMouse | FactoryCity
  • A techi geek word, to grok is a coinage of science-fiction writer R.A. Heinlein, meaning to understand something thoroughly by having empathy with it. Women Grow Business » On Clients and Marketable Nuggets, an Entrepreneur Asks: What is Grok?
  • When he saw Tablet PCs, he immediately grokked the benefit of using them for a project that we were planning.
  • If there's a prosecutor in this country who groks the background and context of the specific operations destroyed by this crime, it's this guy.
  • After an unprovoked attack by the Xadaganians and the Orcs which led to the loss of the Elven allod of Grokh to, the Elves signed an accord to join the League. IGN PC
  • Young adults transmit secret messages of desperately longed-for submission beneath their consciously expressed frustrations and resentments, but can't be counted on to grok that media celebrities are not, you know, real.
  • An emblem of this book's influence: the word "grok"--Martian for complete, instinctive understanding--has entered the language and a dictionary or two. Ron Moore's favorite SF books
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