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maze

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noun

a confusing network of intercommunicating paths or passages; labyrinth.

any complex system or arrangement that causes bewilderment, confusion, or perplexity: Her petition was lost in a maze of bureaucratic red tape.

a state of bewilderment or confusion.

a winding movement, as in dancing.

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verb (used with object)

Chiefly Dialect. to daze, perplex, or stupefy.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English mase, noun use of aphetic variant of amasen to amaze

Related forms

mazed·ly

[meyzd-lee, mey-zid-] , adverb

mazed·ness, noun

maze·like, adjective

in·ter·maze, verb (used with object), -mazed, -maz·ing.

Can be confused: maize, maze.

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Fisher sees maze design as a combination of three factors: structure, aesthetics and the puzzle.

The foreign students and scholars face a maze of federal.

It is a maze of low-ceilinged corridors and linoleum floors, in shades of magenta, brown and nicotine yellow.

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Fisher sees maze design as a combination of three factors: structure, aesthetics and the puzzle.

The foreign students and scholars face a maze of federal.

It is a maze of low-ceilinged corridors and linoleum floors, in shades of magenta, brown and nicotine yellow.

It's that time of year again: yup, that's right, time to head outside and get lost in your local corn maze.

US-made electric cars face a maze of export restrictions.

Freeways begin to crisscross the land in a madhouse maze.

Children can walk--or more likely run--the maze created by the clipped boxwood hedges.

There is only one potentially complex part in the building process: the placing of the walls within the maze.

Cary stepped in to pick up slack in the home office during the organizational maze of restructuring.

When a rat is running a particular maze, the electrical pattern produced in the hippocampus is specific to that maze.

Rough outer skin on a cantaloupe melon appears to be a maze or labyrinth.

Rats were trained using rewards to run alternately through two arms of a maze and on a wheel between each maze run.

Chapin's team trained the rats in a maze by signaling the left and right whisker-sensing regions.

It means running through a maze of press and interest-group scrutiny and public disclosure.

The science is clearly explained, and there are signposts to help guide us through the moral maze.

Apparently either method may work better, depending on the maze.

The object of the game is to advance your piece through a maze to find a specific set of treasure.

We are in a maze where the walls rearrange themselves with every step and every influencing force.

Indian companies seeking to invest abroad face a maze of regulations.

The scientists trained six mice to run a maze in search of infected feces.

The colors of the maze walls are muted, so you can see the character designs.

He probably has an office with a door rather than a cubicle in a rat maze.

Its several political parties and the maze of their tribal ramifications promised a situation of singular confusion.

Beyond the iceberg maze loomed the nose of a glacier that, contrary to a warming climate, is advancing into the sea.

They struggled to orient within a magnetically-charged maze.

He needs political skills, to steer a course through the regulatory maze.

The drug also failed to decrease inhibition in this group in a maze test.

The maze of cloud streams in this image is the result of exhaust from ship engines.

In the second test the animals were placed in a rectangular maze.

Currently, trying to figure out how or if one is on a watchlist involves running through a bureaucratic maze.

They fed the bacteria to mice and then tested them in a maze.

When the animals were used to the task, the researchers filmed them flying through the maze.

The bees could then follow-more or less-the same strategy in a completely unfamiliar maze.

It also took the path of trying to navigate the regulatory maze on its own.

Then you and your child can discuss the stories and complete our sunflower maze together.

The farm also features tours, an animal petting area, a corn maze and pumpkin patch.

Prospective patients and their families who are confronting the task of choosing the right nursing home face a maze of problems.

Both students and colleges have become fairly adept in sorting through the maze and matching up with one another.

Companies must hire costly lawyers to guide them through a maze created by other lawyers.

The maze requires the animal to find and remember the location of a platform hidden beneath the surface.

In this fantastic warehouse, which contains an indescribable maze of tracks and vaults, virtually anything can be stored.

The two-tier hierarchy of management and labour has given way to a maze of responsibilities and.

It was raining and shop owners hunkered down into their little shops carved into the walls of the maze.

Knockout mice also learned to navigate a water maze and locate a submerged platform faster than normal mice did.

The mice begin squeaking excitedly and start rearranging the various maze pieces until they create the pattern shown above.

Suddenly, a dozen dappled, honey-brown dogs bound toward him through a maze of rusty metal and other debris.

One test featured a maze that had both enclosed and open tunnels.

In other words, it is not enough to argue for erasing a strange maze of trash glimpsed over the years by a few unlucky souls.

Once you dive into a section, navigation requires more backtracking than a hedgerow maze.

E-lancing sites are confident that their model of work will find a way through the regulatory maze.

And lo and behold these mice navigated the maze twice as fast as mice who received no bacteria.

We quickly lost track of the older kids as they made their way through the maze inside the three story urban treehouse.

Rats can learn to ignore a certain number of doors in a maze before choosing which one to enter.

Making sense of the maze of conflicting regulations and dealing with the bureaucracy is also a challenge.

Schmidt's team's method involves shining a red laser through a tabletop maze of mirrors into the optical chip.

Find your way through the maze of today's financial markets.

They sent each mouse through a water maze that required it to find a platform obscured beneath the surface of murky water.

He had much more fun with his twin sister in a garden maze that was designed for kids.

I've had to sprint through a maze of temporary hallways to make my connecting flight.

And, originally the idea was that it's a maze that you're moving around in.

But if you can intelligently navigate the maze of discounts and promotions, that can work to your advantage, too.

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World English Dictionary

maze (meɪz)

—n
1.	Compare labyrinth a complex network of paths or passages, esp one with high hedges in a garden, designed to puzzle those walking through it
2.	a similar system represented diagrammatically as a pattern of lines
3.	any confusing network of streets, pathways, etc: a maze of paths
4.	a state of confusion

—vb
5.	an archaic or dialect word for amaze

[C13: see amaze]

'mazelike

—*adj*

'mazement

—n

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Word Origin & History

maze

c.1300, "delusion, bewilderment," possibly from O.E. *mæs, which is suggested by the compound amasod "amazed" (see amaze). Perhaps related to Norw. dial. mas "exhausting labor." Meaning "labyrinth" first recorded late 14c.

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"The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularity, and rough and uneven fields stretched away with lawn-like smoothness to the horizon, and the clouds, finely distinct and picturesque, seemed a fit drapery to hang over fairyland. The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry ... like a green lane into a country maze, at the season when fruit-trees are in blossom."

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