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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Knowledge | Know full well; have some knowledge of, possess some knowledge of; be au courant; Adjective: have in one's head, have at one' fingers ends; know by heart, know by rote; be master of; connaitre le dessous des cartes, know what's what. |
Learning | Acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make oneself acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart, learn by rote. |
Memory | Get at one's fingers' ends, have at one's fingers', learn at one's fingers', know one's lesson, say one's lesson, repeat by heart, repeat by rote; say one's lesson; repeat, repeat as a parrot; have at one's fingers' ends. |
Adverb: by heart, by rote; without book, memoriter. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BY ROTE |
| English words defined with "BY ROTE": memorizer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BY ROTE": Cast into One's Teeth. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Martin Tupper | Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
Expressions using "BY ROTE": learn by rote ♦ To learn by rote. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "BY ROTE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përmendsh (by heart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | наизуст (by heart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ze zvyku. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | par mauvaise façon, comme perroquet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בעל פ" (by heart, oral, orally, verbal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kívülről (by heart, from out, outwardly), gépiesen (automatically, mechanically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 詰め込み主義 (education by rote learning), 注入教育 (teaching by rote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つめ"みしゅぎ (education by rote learning), ちゅうにゅうきょういく (teaching by rote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ybay oteray învãţa pe dinafarã (cram, learn by heart, learn by rote). (various references) наизусть (by heart). (various references) po sećanju (rote: by rote). (various references) de memoria (by heart). (various references) mekaniskt, av gammal vana. (various references) makine gibi, ezbere (by heart, without the book), düşünmeden (impulsively, irrespective of, lightly, out of hand, rashly, recklessly, unintentionally, without thinking, without thought). (various references) напам'ять. (various references) ar dafodleferydd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-o-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: borty, toyer. | |
-2 letters: bore, bort, byre, byte, obey, orby, oyer, robe, rote, ryot, toby, tore, tory, trey, troy, tyer, tyre, tyro, yore. | |
-3 letters: bet, bey, bot, boy, bro, bye, obe, orb, ore, ort, reb, ret, rob, roe, rot, rye, toe, tor, toy, try, tye, yet, yob. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, by, er, et, oe, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-o-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: bootery. | |
+2 letters: barytone, biometry, botchery, botryose, sobriety. | |
+3 letters: ambrotype, barometry, baronetcy, barytones, boycotter, brotherly, bryophyte, ferryboat, tolerably, verbosity. | |
+4 letters: abortively, ambrotypes, botrytises, boycotters, bryophytes, corybantes, exhibitory, ferryboats, insobriety, obdurately, trolleybus, tuberosity. | |
+5 letters: abhorrently, benedictory, blameworthy, carboxylate, celebratory, convertibly, cybernation, elaborately, embryonated, embryophyte, erodibility, erythorbate, hyperbolist, intolerably, keyboardist, observantly, observatory, obtrusively, operability, polysorbate, postpuberty, redoubtably, reprobatory, retributory, subcategory, teenybopper, thrombocyte, treasonably. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Quotations: Familiar 3. Expressions 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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