Repetition vs. Rote
Repetition and Rote Definitions
Repetition
The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
Rote
A memorizing process using routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension
Learn by rote.
Repetition
A recitation or recital, especially of prepared or memorized material.
Rote
Mechanical routine.
Repetition
The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
Rote
The sound of surf breaking on the shore.
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Repetition
(weightlifting): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion. A group of repetitions is a set.
Rote
A medieval stringed instrument variably identified with a lyre, lute, or harp.
Repetition
To petition again.
Rote
Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm.
He could perform by rote any of his roles in Shakespeare.
Repetition
The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition.
Rote
(rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
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Repetition
Recital from memory; rehearsal.
Rote
(musical instrument) 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.
Repetition
The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note.
Rote
Synonym of crowd.
Repetition
Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience.
Rote
By repetition or practice.
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Repetition
The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.
Rote
(obsolete) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
Repetition
An event that repeats;
The events today were a repeat of yesterday's
Rote
(transitive) To learn or repeat by rote.
Repetition
The act of doing or performing again
Rote
A root.
Repetition
The repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
Rote
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.
Well could he sing and play on a rote.
Extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes.
Rote
The noise produced by the surf of the sea dashing upon the shore. See Rut.
Rote
A frequent repetition of forms of speech without attention to the meaning; mere repetition; as, to learn rules by rote.
Till he the first verse could [i. e., knew] all by rote.
Thy love did read by rote, and could not spell.
Rote
To learn or repeat by rote.
Rote
To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
Rote
Memorization by repetition
