ROTE
\ɹˈə͡ʊt], \ɹˈəʊt], \ɹ_ˈəʊ_t]\
Definitions of ROTE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.
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A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.
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To learn or repeat by rote.
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To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.
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A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.
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To learn or repeat by rote.
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To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
By Noah Webster.
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The repeating of words or sounds over and over in order to learn them, with little attention to their meaning; as, to learn rules by rote.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [German] An instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy.
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n. [French] A frequent repetition of sounds, words, or forms of speech, so as to fix them in the memory;—a part, song, or lesson learnt by mere memory:— the recitation or delivery of a lesson, part, &c., from memory without attention to or understanding of the sense, connection, &c.;— hence, a mechanical mode of thinking or speaking from received formulas, current ideas, set phrases, &c.
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