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 →

2) A maze is a puzzle drawn on paper where you trace a line from the start to the finish. tree →

3) A maze can be any confusing place or set of things: a maze of streets, a maze of rules. tree →

4) Mazed means dazed or confused, as if you have lost your way in a maze. tree →

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 →
• Draw a line through the maze to help the mouse find the cheese. tree →
• We programmed the robot to get through the maze. tree →
• The old town was a maze of narrow streets. tree →
• The corn maze at the farm had a scarecrow in the middle. tree →
• If you keep your hand on one wall, you may find your way out of the maze. tree →
• The Minotaur lived in a maze called the labyrinth. tree →
• Filling in the form felt like a maze of questions. tree →
• Mazed with fear he struggled on toward the flickering light that looked like help and safety. tree →

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.
• Sleep helps the brain store what you learned, and rats that ran a maze replay the same brain pattern while they sleep.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «maze» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.