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# maze

noun (a maze, mazes)

«maze» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#m4)

### 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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x2)
- We programmed the robot to get through the maze. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x3)
- The old town was a maze of narrow streets. [tree →](https://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x6)
- The Minotaur lived in a maze called the labyrinth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/#x7)
- Filling in the form felt like a maze of questions. [tree →](https://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://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «maze» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/maze/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«maze» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/maze.html) on Mova free.