rote

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/ɹəʊt/ English

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Mechanical routine; a fixed, habitual, repetitive, or mechanical course of procedure.“He could perform by rote any of his roles in Shakespeare.”

To go out by rotation or succession; to rotate.
To learn or repeat by rote.“[Volumnia to Corolianus] "Because that it lies you on to speak/ to th' people, not by your own instruction,/ Nor by th' matter which your heart prompts you,/ But with such words that are but roted in/ your tongue,..." Coriolanus III.ii.52-55”

A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.“After the movie let out, a crowd of people pushed through the exit doors.”
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.“There was a crowd of toys pushed beneath the couch where the children were playing.”
(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.“That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.”

An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard.

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.