noun. A memorizing process using routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension.

noun. Mechanical routine.

noun. A medieval stringed instrument variably identified with a lyre, lute, or harp.

noun. The sound of surf breaking on the shore.

noun. A fixed or unchanging round, as in learning or reciting something; mechanical routine in learning, or in the repetition of that which has been learned; exact memorizing, or reproduction from memory, as of words or sounds, with or without attention to their significance: chiefly in the phrase by rote.

noun. A part mechanically committed to memory.

noun. A row or rank.

An obsolete dialectal form of rout.

To learn by rote or by heart.

To repeat from memory.

noun. The sound of surf, as before a storm.

noun. A Middle English form of root.

A Middle English form of root.

To rotate; change by rotation.

noun. A musical instrument with strings, and played either by a bow, like a crowd or fiddle, or by a wheel, like a hurdy-gurdy. See crowd. Also called rota.

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

intransitive verb. To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.

noun. 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.

noun. A root.

noun. A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition.

transitive verb. To learn or repeat by rote.

noun. The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.

noun. 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.

noun. Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.

adjective. By repetition or practice.

verb. To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.

noun. memorization by repetition

"The era of photocopied vocabulary lists read by rote is thankfully over, thanks to textbooks like Compelling Conversations."

muscle memory  

roted  rotelike  rotely  roting  

committal to memory  memorisation  memorization  

Capote  Choate  Vote  afloat  bloat  

verbatim  

automatically  commitment to memory  exercise of memory  flashback  grind  

rut