noun
definition
Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
example
He could perform by rote any of his roles in Shakespeare.
verb
definition
To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
definition
To learn or repeat by rote.
example
[Volumnia to Corolianus] "Because that it lies you on to speak/ to th' people, not by your own instruction,/ Nor by th' matter which your heart prompts you,/ But with such words that are but roted in/ your tongue,..." Coriolanus III.ii.52-55
adjective
definition
By repetition or practice.
Examples of rote in a Sentence
Of course, mere rote learning will not suffice.
Nothing is taken for granted and rote memory work should be at a minimum.
Any practice work I've ever seen was done by rote.
This does not apply to formulae got by rote, which are stages on the road to nowhere but second childhood and the grave.
Avicenna was put in charge of a tutor, and his precocity soon made him the marvel of his neighbours, - as a boy of ten who knew by rote the Koran and much Arabic poetry besides.
Many students have a limited English proficiency, and come from a schooling that valued rote memorisation as the means of assessment.
Like many intellectual groups, it cannot fairly be reduced to a handful of phrases or rote methods.
Francis Wayland Parker (1837-1902), who abolished learning lessons by rote, and introduced Froebelian principles.
She repeats the story rote, as if he made her memorize it, which I'll bet the bastard did.
Memory of rote skills is dependent on repetition and practice.
Includes a unique ' starting by rote ' approach plus a thorough and well-founded way of ' starting by note '.
The explanations given for spectrum multiplexing are unclear, and seem to be delivered by rote without any understanding.
Doing a job by rote or only using half of your brain to complete assignments can leave you feeling frustrated and angry.
Some guitar players who love to practice will spend hours dedicated to learning chords in a rote memory style.
Some programs teach word families, others combine a little whole language by teaching sight words alongside phonics and still others teach phonics by rote memorization.
The books are also child friendly and easily understood, encouraging a love of math for the student rather than forcing them to learn by rote.
But, summer learning does not have to be about dry drills and rote memorization.
If you are one of those people who finds as much humor in the rote plots of some of the most popular horror flicks are fear, you will be delighted to learn that Scary Movie 4 is among the August DVD releases.
The spooky re-telling of their 'origin myth', lit by flickering firelight and re-enacted by rote by children who no longer understand what they are saying is a masterpiece.
Like the Gaulish druids described by Caesar, the poet (fili) and the druid possessed a huge stock of unwritten native lore, probably enshrined in verse which was learnt by rote by their pupils.
Religious training was confined to instruction in the forms of the Orthodox Church and the repetition of prayers by rote; dogmatic questions Nicholas neither understood nor cared about; and, in spite of his reverence for his brother Alexander, the latter's mysticism had not the faintest influence upon him.
Creative imagination Interpretation of moods Independent use of fingers Exploration of high and low pitch The motorbike galop This was learned by rote.
Children were taught via rote learning and the prayer became meaningless ritualism to some.
In other words there is a tendency to encourage rote or ' surface ' learning, especially if multiple choice questions are used.
He advocated replacing the rote learning method of teaching with independent inquiry and discovery based problem solving.
Whatever the Gospels record, they do not record the exact words of Jesus, learned by rote by the disciples.
Learning was done by rote and special attention was given to multiplication tables, capital cities and the islands of Scotland.
After the court-case Besant w rote and published her own book advocating birth control entitled The Laws of Population.
How dare these teachers use methods other than rote memorization to teach you about 19th century America?
Turning learning the alphabet into a game is far more effective than rote repetition.
After the revolution she edited in conjunction with Karl Liebknecht the Rote Fahne, the organ of the Spartacist or Communist advocates of violent revolutionary methods.
But on the whole the false prophets deserve that name, not for their conscious impostures, but because they were content to handle religious formulas, which they had learned by rote, as if they were intuitive principles, the fruit of direct spiritual experience, to enforce a conventional morality, shutting their eyes to glaring national sins, after the manner of professional orthodoxy, and, in brief, to treat the religious status quo as if it could be accepted without question as fully embodying the unchanging principles of all religion.
It has two sources, the Weisse Main (White Main), which rises in the Fichtelgebirge on the east side of the Ochsenkopf, and the Rote Main (Red Main), which, rising on the eastern slope of the Frankish Jura, flows past Bayreuth.