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Rot vs Rote - What's the difference?

rot | rote |

Rote is a derived term of rot.

Rote is a related term of rot.



In transitive terms the difference between rot and rote

is that rot is to expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret while rote is to learn or repeat by rote.

As verbs the difference between rot and rote

is that rot is to suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria while rote is to go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.

As nouns the difference between rot and rote

is that rot is the process of becoming rotten; putrefaction while rote is 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.

As an adjective rote is

by repetition or practice.

rot

English

Verb

(rott)
  • To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot .
  • To decline in function or utility.
  • To deteriorate in any way.
    • I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.
  • * Macaulay
    • Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.
  • * Thackeray
    • Rot , poor bachelor, in your club.
  • To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
    • to rot vegetable fiber
  • To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

    • Derived terms

    * potter's rot

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
  • Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
  • * Milton
    • His cattle must of rot and murrain die.
  • Verbal nonsense.

    • Synonyms

    * (nonsense) See also

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) English intransitive verbs ----

    rote

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), origin uncertain. Likely from the phrase (see (rotary)), but the calls both suggestions groundless.

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.
    • They didn’t have copies of the music for everyone, so most of us had to learn the song by rote .
  • * 2009 , 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.
  • 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.
    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 * rotely
    See also
    * muscle memory

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • By repetition or practice.
  • *

    • Verb

    (rot)
  • (obsolete) To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
    • (Zane Grey)
  • To learn or repeat by rote.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Etymology 2

    c. 1600, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) The roar of the surf; the sound of waves breaking on the shore.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) rote, probably of German origin; compare Middle High German (rotte), and English .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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
    • extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes

    Anagrams

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