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rote
mechanical or habitual repetition: Try to learn your multiplication table by rote.
Not to be confused with:
wrote – past tense of write: I wrote a letter to you.
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rote 1
(rōt)n.
1. A memorizing process using routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension: learn by rote.
2. Mechanical routine.
[Middle English.]
rote adj.
rote 2
(rōt)n.
The sound of surf breaking on the shore.
[Probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse rauta, to roar.]
rote 3
(rōt)n.
A medieval stringed instrument variably identified with a lyre, lute, or harp.
[Middle English, from Old French, probably of Germanic origin.]
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rote
(rəʊt)n
1. a habitual or mechanical routine or procedure
2. by rote by repetition; by heart (often in the phrase learn by rote)
[C14: origin unknown]
rote
(rəʊt)n
(Instruments) an ancient violin-like musical instrument; crwth
[C13: from Old French rote, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German rotta, Middle Dutch rotte]
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rote1
(roʊt)n.
routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure.
Idioms: by rote, from memory, without thought of the meaning; in a mechanical way: to learn a language by rote.
[1275–1325; Middle English; of obscure orig.]
rote2
(roʊt)n.
crowd 2.
[1350–1400; Middle English < Old French < Frankish *hrota (compare Old High German hruozza); akin to crowd2]
rote3
(roʊt)n.
the sound of the surf.
[1600–10; perhaps < Old Norse rauta roar]
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Noun | 1. | rote - memorization by repetition committal to memory, memorisation, memorization - learning so as to be able to remember verbatim; "the actor's memorization of his lines" |
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rote
noun
by rote automatically, by heart, parrot-fashion, without thinking, mechanically, mindlessly, unthinkingly You are merely reciting facts you learned by rote.
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[rəʊt]B. CPD rote learning N rote learning was the fashion → era costumbre aprender las cosas a fuerza de repetirlas
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