Crossword-Solution: ROTE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ROTE | anagram | ETRO, ORTE, OTER, OTRE, TEOR, TERO, TOER, TORE, TREO, TROE |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
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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 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.
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.
Thus it came to pass that Johnson, having got the tale by rote, Followed every stray goanna, seeking for the antidote.
Which made her laugh, because he blessed by rote—pretending paternal emotion, which he did not feel just then.
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…
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…
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.
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 888 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).