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maize (MAYZ) (noun)
Corn, often referred to as Indian corn: The recipe called for ground maize, which Debora bought in the health food store.
maze (MAYZ) (noun)
That which is complicated or elaborate: On the first day of Tony's new job, he tried to understand the maze of regulations.
The ornamental garden was a complex maze of shrubbery and trees.
The farmer set up a labyrinth in his cornfield and invited people to participate in what the newspaper referred to as the maize maze.
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maze (from Old English, not Greek or Latin)
1. A network of paths, streets, or passageways in which a walker or driver might easily become lost in
a maze of narrow passageways.
2. Any confusing tangle or muddle; for example, of regulations or procedures, that are difficult to negotiate.
3. An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth.
4. Etymology: from Middle English mase, "confusion"; maze, from masen, "to confuse, to daze"; from Old English masian, "to confound".
5. Short for amaze, to astonish, to stun, or to stupefy someone.
2. Any confusing tangle or muddle; for example, of regulations or procedures, that are difficult to negotiate.
3. An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth.
4. Etymology: from Middle English mase, "confusion"; maze, from masen, "to confuse, to daze"; from Old English masian, "to confound".
5. Short for amaze, to astonish, to stun, or to stupefy someone.
The word amaze comes from amasian, "stupefy, make crazy" from a-, probably used here as an intensitive prefix, plus -masian. The sense of "overwhelm with wonder" is from about 1592. Amazing in the sense of "great beyond expectation" is first recorded in 1704.
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(Greek > Latin: maze; the inner ear)