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Meanings of rote in English

Spanish
memorización

Memorization by repetition.

memorización

Language spoken in Indonesia.

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Usage of rote in English
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As opposed to learning by rote, children are encouraged to participate more.
The Guardian
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That said, they're also going to howl if it's just boringly rote.
Wired
3
Instead, it was mostly a rote description of the work they did.
The Guardian
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Our tastes we acquire, with difficulty; our sentiments we learn by rote.
Novel Notes
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Bad -brought bad to the village- Speaking by rote, as if hypnotized.
Harvest Home
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He managed a grin, but it seemed an expression delivered by rote.
The Departure
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She fetched other ingredients by rote and placed them on the counter.
Dark pursuit
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If there was anything he deposed, it was learning things by rote.
The Soul of a Child
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I could feel my blood pumping hard, but I answered by rote.
Montlivet
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He acquired scholarship by rote, politics by association, and morality by tradition.
The Mirrors of Downing Street / Some Political Reflections by a ...
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I had all my grand-father's melody as well as poetry by rote.
Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale
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Come, Aura, you are talking by rote out of the marriage service.
Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
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If they don't learn them by rote when they have strong memories.
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations
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Explain: spurious, mazes, logic, despite, quacks, rote, policy, rectitude, cant,bigotry,specious.
Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
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I watch his mouth, lip-reading the Polish phrases he's learned by rote.
WATER FOR ELEPHANT
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Increasing numbers are passing at ordinary level simply by rote learning.
The Irish Times
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Translations for rote
Rote through the time
Rote across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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