What's the difference between daze and maze?

Daze


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
  • (n.) The state of being dazed; as, he was in a daze.
  • (n.) A glittering stone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
  • (2) "We're not really here," read John Reid's T-shirt, quoting a City song from the difficult years, as he stood in a daze in Albert Square listening to Oasis blast out from the speakers.
  • (3) This enabled the section commander to drag away the fallen soldier, who was dazed but unharmed.
  • (4) If drug cartel kingpin El Chapo stays in Mexico, 'absolutely nothing' will change Read more A joint police and military operation seized Guzmán at a hotel after a battle which left five dead and six captured, including the cartel leader who appeared dazed and grubby in photographs.
  • (5) "Winning Wimbledon is the pinnacle of tennis," Murray said afterwards, still in something of a daze a good half hour after the final point.
  • (6) He was also forced to scrap plans to launch a Russian Dazed & Confused, which was due to appear in March or September this year.
  • (7) But the most worrying thing about the shadow cabinet is that few have the stature to challenge the leader if he does make mistakes, as all leaders do; some are so green they’ll merely be thrilled to have a job, others too dazed by defeat.
  • (8) Gagarin Way, Gregory Burke's first play in 2001, was phenomenal; I reeled from the Traverse theatre in a daze of admiration.
  • (9) Still bloodied and dazed, Karen must hand over her baby and be led outside.
  • (10) His elbow to the head of Joe Cole left the Chelsea midfielder so bloodied and dazed that he had to be replaced by Jermaine Jenas.
  • (11) The magazine's dazed New York lawyers then heard Eady instruct the jurors that they were not there "to judge Mr Polanski's personal lifestyle" because the libel court was not "a court of morals".
  • (12) Dazed survivors stand immobile in a huge, roiling cloud of dust.
  • (13) I saw this when I spoke with men and women at the very start of their journey – dazed and battered from the drive across the desert border with Niger but filled with a naive optimism.
  • (14) The city centre ground to a halt as rescuers pulled bloodied corpses from the rubble and dazed, dust-covered survivors stumbled away.
  • (15) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
  • (16) They were carried or staggered ashore, some paralysed by malnutrition, others little more than walking skeletons, burnt and dazed from weeks at sea on boats the UN has called “floating coffins”.
  • (17) He sat up, looked round, said 'I just want to go home', dazed shocked."
  • (18) Dazed from the fumes, I walked smack into an older gentleman only to realise it was, in fact, Bill Murray.
  • (19) Frank Lampard had spoken of the game passing in "all a bit of a daze", with team-mates left to pick over the drama to recreate the timeline: conceding to Sergio Busquets; losing John Terry to a red card; falling further behind to Andrés Iniesta; Ramires's glorious riposte; Lionel Messi's penalty miss; the quivering of the woodwork as they heaved to contain the holders; the desperate rearguard action before Fernando Torres, the £50m goalscorer with so few goals to his name, sprinted alone into Barça territory and equalised in stoppage time.
  • (20) A week later, he was found wandering in a daze some distance behind the front line.

Maze


Definition:

  • (n.) A wild fancy; a confused notion.
  • (n.) Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
  • (n.) A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.
  • (v. t.) To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.
  • (v. i.) To be bewildered.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
  • (2) These impairments were seen in animals of both sexes, a finding which challenges the view that only females prenatally treated with nicotine show deficits in maze learning.
  • (3) It starts and ends in Vidigal and includes a hike up the mountain Tavares Bastos Jazz night at Maze pousada in Tavares Bastos Vidigal is not the only favela with nightlife credentials.
  • (4) The Learning behavior on a water maze was observed in Wistar-JCL rats which were 10 weeks of age at the beginning of tests.
  • (5) The results indicate that behavior in transition states maintained by reinforcement contingencies in the radial maze is similar to that maintained by extended chained schedules, despite the fact that some of the stimuli controlling behavior in the maze are absent at the moment behavior is emitted.
  • (6) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
  • (7) In a third experiment, animals were trained 16 days in the same maze configuration and at day 17 they were exposed to the mirror image of the radial maze.
  • (8) In the radial maze task, both VE(-) and VE(+) animals required as many trials to reach the learning criterion as control animals.
  • (9) Spatial working memory was examined in an 8-arm radial water maze task 6 weeks after bulbectomy.
  • (10) Grafts taken from older (E21) donors did produce a short-lasting improvement in the T-maze alternation performance, replicating the previous report.
  • (11) Further studies are needed to clarify the reasons of the marked age-related difference in the effects of DSP-4 on the performance of water maze task in rats.
  • (12) Experimental data are presented on the formation and retention during 24 hours of a motor alimentary conditioned reflex (MCR) in a T-maze, in rats 4--5 months and 1,5--2 months old.
  • (13) Prior to analysis the spatial learning ability of the aged rats was assessed in the Morris' water maze test.
  • (14) Bilateral excitotoxic lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NBM) in the rat cause deficits in the water maze, a spatial memory paradigm.
  • (15) In the present work no significant differences were found between the behaviour of FG7142-kindled rats and vehicle-treated controls in social interaction test, elevated plus maze, or the Vogel conflict test of anxiety or in tests of home cage aggression or startle responses.
  • (16) The animals were tested for learning ability in a Morris water maze task starting 6 or 12 weeks post-COLCH.
  • (17) Chronic exposure of rats to low levels of halothane during development, a treatment which retards synaptogenesis, was found to cause a long-term impairment of choice accuracy in the radial-arm maze.
  • (18) A simple T-maze was utilized to evaluate the aversive effects of exposure to three levels of static magnetic field (0, 1.5, and 4 T).
  • (19) Radial arm maze observations were made on offspring rats during a total of 30 trials, and we made the following findings: 1) The number of trials required for fulfilling learning criterion was significantly large in F-DEL and F-NURS male rats groups relative to the controls; that is, F-DEL and F-NURS were slow in learning.
  • (20) These data suggest that doses of NMDA receptor channel antagonists sufficient to disrupt hippocampal long-term potentiation and radial arm maze performance will also disrupt delayed conditional discrimination.