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.
 * 1) * 2009, Jim Holt, ''Got Poetry?
 * But memorize them we did, in big painful chunks, by rote repetition.
 * 1) 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.

Derived terms

 * rotelike
 * rotely

Adjective

 * 1) By repetition or practice.

Noun

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

Adjectives for Rote
rapt; aesthetic; rhythmal.

Thesaurus
automatically, commitment to memory, exercise of memory, flashback, grind, groove, hindsight, learning by heart, looking back, mechanically, memoir, memorization, memorizing, pace, recall, recalling, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration, reflection, remembering, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospect, retrospection, review, ritual, rote memory, routine, rut, study, treadmill, unthinkingly

Etymology 1
From, origin uncertain. Likely from the phrase bi: rote:, c. 1300. Some have proposed a relationship either with rote:/rute:, or  rota: (see rotary:), but the OED calls both suggestions groundless.

Etymology 2
c. 1600, from rót:, perhaps related to rauta:.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: formal, formal , informal
 * Dutch:


 * French: apprentissage par cœur
 * Japanese: 暗記学習
 * Russian: заучивание, заучивание наизусть, зубрёжка


 * Dutch: sleur

Noun

 * Dutch:

Anagrams

 * tore

Anagrams

 * ôter
 * tore

Adjective
rote



Verb

 * 1) to untidy, to make a mess
 * 2)  to fool around (engage in casual or flirtatious sexual acts)

Etymology
From róta:.

Derived terms

 * rotet (or rotete)
 * rotehue
 * rotekopp