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.
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
But memorize them we did, in big painful chunks, by rote repetition.
Rote learning or learning by rote is learning things by repeating them without thinking about them or trying to understand them. He is very sceptical about the value of rote learning. The sound of surf breaking on the shore. A medieval stringed instrument variably identified with a lyre, lute, or harp. when you learn something by repeating it many times, without thinking about it carefully or without understanding it (Perhaps from rota ( ROTATE) or from route ( ROUTE))