rote

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

rote, n. 

 A root.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

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

 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.  [1913 Webster]
"Well could he sing and play on a rote."  [1913 Webster]
"extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes."  [1913 Webster]

rote, n. [Cf. Rut roaring.].

 The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.  [1913 Webster]

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.  [1913 Webster]
"till he the first verse could [i. e., knew] all by rote."  [1913 Webster]
"Thy love did read by rote, and could not spell."  [1913 Webster]

rote, v. t. 

 To learn or repeat by rote.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

rote, v. i. 

 To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.  Z. Grey.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rote, n. (usu. prec. by by) mechanical or habitual repetition (with ref. to acquiring knowledge).

Etymology

ME: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

rote

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

ROGET THESAURUS

rote

Teaching

N teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, Chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three R's, initiation, A, B, C, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, Montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, A, B, C, D, E, F, gentleman's C, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project, teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical, the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, sermons in stones and good in everything.