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# maze

«maze» in Mova's school dictionary: **a puzzle made of paths or passages with walls or hedges…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a maze, mazes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A maze is a puzzle made of paths or passages with walls or hedges, where you have to find the way through without getting lost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#m1)

2) A maze is a puzzle drawn on paper where you trace a line from the start to the finish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#m2)

3) A maze can be any confusing place or set of things: a maze of streets, a maze of rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#m3)

4) Mazed means dazed or confused, as if you have lost your way in a maze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and computing lessons, mazes are used to practise directions (left, right, forward), giving instructions to robots and Bee-Bots, and solving problems step by step; a famous trick is to keep one hand on a wall. In stories mazes are mysterious places, like the labyrinth of the Minotaur in Greek myth. Phrases: a hedge maze, a corn maze, get lost in a maze, a maze of.

### examples

- We got lost in the hedge maze for half an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x1)
- Draw a line through the maze to help the mouse find the cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x2)
- We programmed the robot to get through the maze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x3)
- The old town was a maze of narrow streets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x4)
- The corn maze at the farm had a scarecrow in the middle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x5)
- If you keep your hand on one wall, you may find your way out of the maze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x6)
- The Minotaur lived in a maze called the labyrinth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x7)
- Filling in the form felt like a maze of questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x8)
- Mazed with fear he struggled on toward the flickering light that looked like help and safety. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x9)

### note

Countable: a maze, mazes. Homophone: «maize» (corn, the plant) sounds the same; a «maize maze» is a maze cut into a field of maize! The adjective «amazing» comes from an old meaning of «amaze», to confuse. Wall-following works for simple mazes but not for every maze.

### In the corpora

- [Fish can learn simple mazes and remember the way, sometimes using landmarks like stones or plants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/152-goldfish-memory/8/)
- [Sleep helps the brain store what you learned, and rats that ran a maze replay the same brain pattern while they sleep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/363-sleep-and-dreams-in-people/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «maze» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.