[P1] the whirring is back! was:new ibook problem...

[Brian Olesky]

On 5/7/03 4:45 PM, "Fran Dollinger" <fran at dollingers.com> wrote:

> I read that book and knew right away what the reference was but I was
> under the impression that to 'grok' something was to have a deep
> understanding of that thing.

And you were right. See below, picked up from the Dictionary channel in
Sherlock:

tr.v. Slang grok·ked, grok·king, groks

To understand profoundly through intuition or empathy.


[Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his Stranger in a Strange Land.]


Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition