EXAMPLES | WORD ORIGIN | IDIOMS noun routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure: the rote of daily living.
adjective proceeding mechanically and repetitiously; being mechanical and repetitious in nature; routine; habitual: rote performance; rote implementation; His behavior became more rote with every passing year.
Idioms by rote , from memory, without thought of the meaning; in a mechanical way: to learn a language by rote.
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Origin of rote 1 1275–1325; Middle English; of obscure origin
Origin of rote 2 1350–1400; Middle English <
Old French <
Frankish *hrota (compare
Old High German hruozza ); akin to
crowd2 noun the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
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Origin of rote 3 1600–10; perhaps < Old Norse rauta ‘roar’
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Examples from the Web for rote Contemporary Examples of rote The stories of discovery are so rote , though, that we forget that they took incredibly hard work.
Using their skill with visual processing, ASDs can learn by rote how to negotiate the neuro-typical world.
So let me just add that true Tiger Cubs aren't satisfied with rote learning.
In the workshop or lab, results are determined by experimentation and creativity, not rote learning.
Historical Examples of rote Conon stepte to the kynge and presented his rote with a gladde chere.
Slavery taught the Negro to work by rule and rote but not by principle and method.
Our tastes we acquire, with difficulty; our sentiments we learn by rote .
You can teach them to do things by rote , but when an emergency comes they are like putty.
The test has been criticized as too dependent on rote memory.
British Dictionary definitions for rote noun a habitual or mechanical routine or procedure
by rote by repetition; by heart (often in the phrase learn by rote )
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Word Origin for rote C14: origin unknown
noun an ancient violin-like musical instrument; crwth
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Word Origin for rote C13: from Old French rote , of Germanic origin; related to Old High German rotta , Middle Dutch rotte
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Word Origin and History for rote n. 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.
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