Definition of Rote

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Definition of Rote

Rote

A root.

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.

The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.

A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.

To learn or repeat by rote.

To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.

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Rote Quotations

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
William Hazlitt

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.
Alan Shepard

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
Laurence Sterne

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Martin Farquhar Tupper

Rote Translations

rote in Swedish is utantill

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