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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rote
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
learning
▪ Science courses usually have fewer experiments and more rote learning.
▪ The result is that many have to rely heavily on rote learning and memory, with limited understanding.
▪ Readers who rely heavily on conventional visual rote learning may adjust more slowly.
▪ Teaching standards are very poor - lots of rote learning and copying notes from the blackboard.
■ VERB
learn
▪ Facts to be learned by rote are often best assimilated just before bedtime, when you get up or when walking.
▪ There is too little food or warmth; learning is by rote, and students make their own clothes.
▪ Much emphasis is placed these days on understanding and applying standard practice rather than simply learning it by rote.
▪ If you have a good memory, you can learn by rote.
▪ Children learn it by rote to pass examinations, and they don't see its relevance to the world around them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rote memorization
▪ Simon's concert was rote and uninspired.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And is rote learning necessarily in opposition to discovery learning?
▪ I know that many teachers of the present day think that learning by rote is archaic.
▪ If you have a good memory, you can learn by rote.
▪ Margaret used to be a great one for rote learning.
▪ Others recite complex speeches by rote that sound all too familiar, and collapse at the slightest interruption.
▪ Science courses usually have fewer experiments and more rote learning.
▪ The litany of inequities is so familiar to her now that she recites by rote.
▪ There is too little food or warmth; learning is by rote, and students make their own clothes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rote

Rote \Rote\, n. [OE. rote, probably of German origin; cf. MHG. rotte, OHG. rota, hrota, LL. chrotta. Cf. Crowd a kind of violin.] (Mus.) 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.

Well could he sing and play on a rote.
--Chaucer.

extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.
--Sir W. Scott.

Rote

Rote \Rote\, n. A root. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Rote

Rote \Rote\, v. i. To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate. [Obs.]
--Z. Grey.

Rote

Rote \Rote\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Roted; p. pr. & vb. n. Roting.] To learn or repeat by rote. [Obs.]
--Shak.

Rote

Rote \Rote\, n. [OF. rote, F. route, road, path. See Route, and cf. Rut a furrow, Routine.] A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.
--Swift.

till he the first verse could [i. e., knew] all by rote.
--Chaucer.

Thy love did read by rote, and could not spell.
--Shak.

Rote

Rote \Rote\, n. [Cf. Rut roaring.] The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rote

c.1300, "custom, habit," in phrase bi rote "by heart," of uncertain origin, sometimes said to be connected with Old French rote "route" (see route (n.)), or from Latin rota "wheel" (see rotary), but OED calls both suggestions groundless.

Wiktionary
rote

Etymology 1

  1. By repetition or practice. n. 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. 2 Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure. v

  2. 1 (context obsolete English) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate. 2 (context transitive English) To learn or repeat by rote. Etymology 2

    n. (context rare English) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore. Etymology 3

    n. 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.

WordNet
rote

n. memorization by repetition [syn: rote learning]

Wikipedia
Rote

Rote can refer to:

  • Crwth, a Welsh instrument
  • Rote learning
  • Rote Island, an island in Indonesia
  • Return on tangible equity, an economic concept
People
  • Tobin Rote (born 1928), American football player
  • Kyle Rote (1928–2002), American football player and father of:
  • Kyle Rote, Jr. (born 1950), American soccer player
  • Jason Butler Rote, American TV writer
  • Ryan Rote (born 1982), baseball pitcher

Usage examples of "rote".

Alas, his piloting instructor, aside from being a demon on rote, had disallowed his request to double his shifts so that he might depart a Common month early with his big-ship license.

Without controversy there be seven seen sorts, seventeen several sorts of hob- thrushes, and several sorts of divels, and if the humour took me I could name them all by rote.

Montjean took up the cue, describing her business with a glibness that had a quality of rote.

Thus it came to pass that Johnson, having got the tale by rote, Followed every stray goanna, seeking for the antidote.

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Strauss rote some things on a peice of paper and prof Nemur talkd to me very sereus.

Whose emissaries knock at every door In rhythmal rote, and groan the great events The hour is pregnant with?

Wee aint scollers enougth to rite it down just what wee feel, but wee feel a hunderd times more an what weave got rote down.

They came by rote, a platitude from this speech of long ago, a banality from yesterday, a quotation, an apothegm, a joke.

Bart said fl atty when I a all his enthusiasm squelched because Melodic refusing to dance the rote he wanted.

But while the subtests that measuredreasoning, abstract thinking, and spatial relationships were superior, the tests requiring rote memory were very poor.

At an almost subliminal level, a soft musical refrain had begun, a chanting sound that whispered in her ears: Chango mani rote Chango mani cote olle Larry Niven and Steven Barnes 159 She tapped at the earpiece of her Virtual set.

Sianadh took this opportunity to teach handspeak and to recite the history of the world, learned by rote, embellished by a few of his own amendments.

For example, theurgists and demonologists used rote formulae to summon superhuman beings, as Agor had explained to him, and those beings were specialized and individual.

After Alaena picked her tiles, the older woman frowned at them for a long time, then began saying a few chopped phrases, obviously memorized whole by rote.