Crossword-Solution: ROTE 4 letters, 371 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

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Word Word Type Definition
Rote n. A root.
Rote n. 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.
Rote n. The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the
shore. See Rut.
Rote n. A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to
the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.
Rote v. t. To learn or repeat by rote.
Rote v. i. To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.

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Word Anagrams
ROTE anagram ETRO, ORTE, OTER, OTRE, TEOR, TERO, TOER, TORE, TREO, TROE

We have 371 clues for the answer “ROTE”

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"Parrot fashion" 1 answer
"Thy love did read by __, that could not spell": "Romeo and Juliet" 1 answer
A learning method 1 answer
A memorizing process 1 answer
A way to learn 1 answer
A way to learn (with "by") 1 answer
A way to remember 1 answer
Alternative to the new math 1 answer
An unthinking way 1 answer
Automatic action 1 answer
Automatic behavior 1 answer
Automatic course 1 answer
Automatic learning method 1 answer
Automatous learning 1 answer
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Boring drill 1 answer
Boring drills 1 answer
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Boring method to learn by 1 answer
Boring thing to learn by 1 answer
Boring way to learn, to some 1 answer
By __ (one way to learn) 1 answer
By ___ (by memory alone). 1 answer
By ___ (by use of memory). 1 answer
By ___ (learning style) 1 answer
By ___ (mechanically) 1 answer
By ___ (without thinking) 1 answer
By ___ (without thought). 1 answer
By the numbers 1 answer
Class drudgery 1 answer
Classroom Drudgery 1 answer
Classroom drilling 1 answer
Classroom drills 1 answer
Classroom routine 1 answer
Cramming method 1 answer
Cramming method, often 1 answer
Cramming technique 1 answer
Drill that may bore 1 answer
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Drum-in method 1 answer
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Dull repetition 1 answer
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Education by memorization 1 answer
Elementary learning technique 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ROTE (5)

Chapter XX La For a moment Tarzan thought that by some strange freak of fate a miracle had saved him, but when he realized the ease with which the girl had, single-handed, beaten off twenty gorilla-like males, and an instant later, as he saw them again take up their dance about him while she addressed them in a singsong monotone, which bore every evidence of rote, he came to the conclusion that it was all but a part of the ceremony of which he was the central figure.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The rote a sort of guitar, or rather hurdy-gurdy, the strings of which were managed by a wheel, from which the instrument took its name.] 581 (return) [ Infamous.] 59 (return) [ The resuscitation of Athelstane has been much criticised, as too violent a breach of probability, even for a work of such fantastic character.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Bock sniffed and rooted about the small back yard as though the earth (every cubic inch of which he already knew by rote) held some new entrancing flavour.
The Haunted Bookshop Christopher Morley 2008
Thus it came to pass that Johnson, having got the tale by rote, Followed every stray goanna, seeking for the antidote.
The Man from Snowy River Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 1995
Which made her laugh, because he blessed by rote—pretending paternal emotion, which he did not feel just then.
Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995

Quotes with ROTE (3)

It is the thought, not the incidentals of expression, that essentially makes an exposition unpopular. A systematic ribbon and button maker can become unpopular but essentially is not at all, inasmuch as he does not mean much by the very odd things he says (alas, and this is a popular art!). Socrates, on the other hand, was the most unpopular in Greece because he said the same thing as the simplest person but meant infinitely much by it. To be able to stick to one thing, to st…
Soren Kierkegaard Stages on Life's Way
Memorizing someone else’s explanation of the truth isn’t the same as seeing the truth for yourself. It is what it is — the memorization of second-hand knowledge. It is not your experience. It is not your knowledge. And no matter how much material is learned by rote, and no matter how eloquently we can speak about the memorized information, we’re clinging to a description of something that’s not ours. What’s more, the description is never the item itself. By holding onto our i…
H. E. Davey Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable … If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.
David Foster Wallace The Pale King
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