maze
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.
Chiefly Dialect. to daze, perplex, or stupefy.
Origin of maze
1Other words from maze
- mazed·ly [meyzd-lee, mey-zid-], /ˈmeɪzd li, ˈmeɪ zɪd-/, adverb
- mazedness, noun
- mazelike, adjective
- in·ter·maze, verb (used with object), in·ter·mazed, in·ter·maz·ing.
Words that may be confused with maze
- maize, maze
Words Nearby maze
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How to use maze in a sentence
From a scientific perspective, we have designed new artificial evolutionary algorithms that have produced a diverse set of robots that drive or crawl, and can learn to navigate through complex mazes.
We’re Teaching Robots to Evolve Autonomously—So They Can Adapt to Life Alone on Distant Planets | Emma Hart | February 4, 2021 | Singularity HubFirst, the scientists taught adult mice, which have a lower rate of neurogenesis, similar to an adult human brain, to navigate a maze.
What happens to our lost childhood memories? Motherhood sent me looking for answers. | Missy Ryan | February 4, 2021 | Washington PostThe last time Peter Vogel stepped inside Nationals Park before this month, in December 2019, the outfield had been transformed into a temporary Christmas market, with a 90,000-square-foot maze of lights and a few dozen vendors.
Meet the Nats fan who won team’s World Series ring raffle — and received his prize on the field | Scott Allen | January 19, 2021 | Washington PostSome senators joked about feeling like mice as they navigated a maze of seven-foot-tall, plexiglass booths that surround their desks.
Maryland lawmakers return to Annapolis for start of unusual 90-day session | Ovetta Wiggins, Erin Cox | January 13, 2021 | Washington PostPatients are lucky, he added, if their doctor knows how to navigate the charitable assistance maze.
Seniors face steep drug costs as Congress stalls on capping Medicare out-of-pockets | lbelanger225 | December 28, 2020 | Fortune
“Cornerstone Cellars barrels are lost within a collapsed barrel maze,” she shared.
Everything legal and worth making money from is like a maze.
Rawcus Is the Rapper Behind the Viral ‘White People Crazy’ Video | Rich Goldstein | January 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTmaze-like is a kind way of describing the economic landscape for Americans in the South, particularly Atlanta.
Rawcus Is the Rapper Behind the Viral ‘White People Crazy’ Video | Rich Goldstein | January 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe maze ends in an expansive Zen garden, complete with a pebble pool-pit and a vast mirror along one wall.
The Royal Academy Wants You to Finish This Artwork | Chloë Ashby | January 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 2010, he reported that the mice who practiced on the dual maze actually got smarter on tests of general cognitive abilities.
Are You Smarter Than a Mouse? Excerpt from Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power | Dan Hurley | January 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDown in the field Tim appeared from the maze of corn-stalks and looked my way beneath a shading hand.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydAgain Tim appeared from the maze of corn and stood shading his eyes and gazing toward the house.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydOur progress became monotonous, a succession of fruitless attempts to advance; hopeless, like wandering in a subtle maze.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairThen she led them on again through the maze of rooms while the girls thought amazedly of what she had told them.
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle | Laura Lee HopeWalking, half awake, Ida floundered among the boulders and through a horrible maze of whitened driftwood cast up by the stream.
The Gold Trail | Harold Bindloss
British Dictionary definitions for maze
/ (meɪz) /
a complex network of paths or passages, esp one with high hedges in a garden, designed to puzzle those walking through it: Compare labyrinth (def. 1)
a similar system represented diagrammatically as a pattern of lines
any confusing network of streets, pathways, etc: a maze of paths
a state of confusion
an archaic or dialect word for amaze
Origin of maze
1Derived forms of maze
- mazelike, adjective
- mazement, noun
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