Rote vs Null - What's the difference?
rote | null |
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.
* 2009 ,
Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.
(obsolete) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
To learn or repeat by rote.
(rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.
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.
* Sir Walter Scott
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between rote and null
is that rote is redness while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.rote
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), origin uncertain. Likely from the phrase (see (rotary)), but the calls both suggestions groundless.Noun
(-)- They didn’t have copies of the music for everyone, so most of us had to learn the song by rote .
Jim Holt], ''[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/books/review/Holt-t.html?_r=2&8bu&emc=bub1 Got Poetry?
- But memorize them we did, in big painful chunks, by rote repetition.
- The pastoral scenes from those commercials don’t bear too much resemblance to the rote of daily life on a farm.
Usage notes
* Commonly found in the phrase "by rote" and in attributive use: "rote learning", "rote memorization", and so on. * Often used pejoratively in comparison with "deeper" learning that leads to "understanding".Derived terms
* rotelike * rotelySee also
* muscle memoryVerb
(rot)- (Zane Grey)
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
c. 1600, from (etyl) .Noun
(-)Etymology 3
(etyl) rote, probably of German origin; compare Middle High German (rotte), and English .Noun
(en noun)- extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes
Anagrams
* ----null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.