maze

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What a maze was a man's heart, wherein he must lose himself every minute!

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  1. noun An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth.
  2. noun A physical situation in which it is easy to get lost: a maze of bureaucratic divisions.
  3. noun A graphic puzzle, the solution of which is an uninterrupted path through an intricate pattern of line segments from a starting point to a goal.
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  • It seemed the palace was built as a maze, and as soon as he thought that, he knew he was right. —  Rachel Lee - Shadows of Destiny
  • With the flashes of color from the fireworks and the gently bobbing lanterns, the maze was the perfect place for a clandestine meeting. —  THE SEDUCTION OF SARA
  • Another idea running rampant through my cranial maze is the assumption that Christian ethics are the basis for our national morality. —  The Roanoke Times: Home page
  • However, the maze is a task that is slowly learned over many repeated trials. —  Biosingularity
  • Take the FLUME SCROLL and leave the maze, then turn the wheel one more time to get a configuration where you just walk around one linear path without any forks. —  Gamezebo: Casual Game Reviews, Previews, Cheats, Tips, Forums, Free Games, and More
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labyrinth ·  tangle ·  jumble ·  depth ·  expanse ·  wilderness ·  thicket ·  vista ·  blackness ·  web ·  array ·  shadow

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maze:   mazes
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English mase, confusion, maze, from masen, to confuse, daze, from Old English āmasian, to confound; see amaze.

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  1. Early modern English mase; from Middle English masen (also in comp. amasen, bemasen: see amaze, bemaze); prob. from Norwegian masa, pore over a thing, reflexive masast, begin to dream, = Swedish dial. masa, be lazy, lounge, bask in the sun; prob. the same (through the senses ‘be idle, talk idly’) as Norwegian masa = Icelandic masa, chatter, prattle. The English maze is not “connected with Anglo-Saxon māse, a whirlpool,” for the reason, among others, that there is no such word.
  2. Early modern English mase; from Middle English maze, mase; from the verb.
 

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