ROTE

rote

Noun

  1. The process of learning or committing something to memory through mechanical repetition, usually by hearing and repeating aloud, often without full attention to comprehension or thought for the meaning.
    They didn’t have copies of the music for everyone, so most of us had to learn the song by rote.
  2. Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
    The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. A kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.

Verb

  1. To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
  2. To learn or repeat by rote.

Adjective

  1. By repetition or practice.


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