1. A memorizing process using routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension: learn by rote.
2. mechanical routine.
3. the sound of surf breaking on the shore.
4. A medieval stringed instrument variably identified with a lyre, lute, or harp.

1. 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.
2. mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
3. by repetition or practice.
4. to go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
5. the roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.

1. A root.
2. 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.
3. the noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. see rut.
4. A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition.
5. to go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
6. to learn or repeat by rote.

1. to learn by rote or by heart.
2. to repeat from memory.
3. to rotate; change by rotation.
4. an obsolete dialectal form of rout
5. A middle english form of root
6. 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.
7. A part mechanically committed to memory.
8. A row or rank.
9. 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
10. the sound of surf, as before a storm.
11. A middle english form of root

1. memorization by repetition