What's the difference between maze and raze?

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.

Raze


Definition:

  • (n.) A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.
  • (v. t.) To erase; to efface; to obliterate.
  • (v. t.) To subvert from the foundation; to lay level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to demolish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
  • (2) MSF said the village of Lekongole has been razed to the ground.
  • (3) Helicopter crews have reported that entire villages have been razed there.
  • (4) His village was later razed and he felt too traumatised to return, he said.
  • (5) As a newly appointed prime minister in 1999, before becoming president on New Year's Day 2000, he began with a war in Chechnya , brutally suppressing an armed insurrection against Moscow's rule in the north Caucasus and razing the provincial capital, Grozny.
  • (6) The provisional structures that have been built in the area, including shops, cafes, churches and mosques, will all be razed as part of efforts to clear regions of the camp next to a motorway leading to the port, where there have been clashes with police.
  • (7) What is known is that a number of villages, including Likuangole, were razed to the ground.
  • (8) The massacre at Sharpeville , the first trial of Nelson Mandela , the razing of the black township of Sophiatown , signalled a regime prepared to shoot, jail or exile its opponents – and as Nakasa said, to bore the rest to death.
  • (9) When Katniss stands in the rubble of her district razed to the ground, it could be parts of Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Afghanistan.
  • (10) The last one – a magnitude 8.1 in 1934 – razed around a quarter of Kathmandu to the ground and killed 17,000 people.
  • (11) Up to 15 people are thought to have been killed and more than 160 injured after a massive explosion and fire tore through a fertiliser plant and razed dozens of homes in a small Texas town on Wednesday night.
  • (12) Turn Britain's regions into subsidiaries of London, raze its business and political elites, and you have hardly any counterbalance to the might of the City.
  • (13) Moses wanted to extend Fifth Avenue through the square, ostensibly to ease congestion in Greenwich Village's dense maze of streets, but also to reward developers building on 10 blocks he'd razed to the south.
  • (14) Author deals with the possiblity of determination of various razes.
  • (15) But it is the first such modern museum in Poland , devoted to the 63-day insurrection in August and September 1944 that left 200,000 dead and incurred a terrible revenge when the Nazis methodically razed Warsaw.
  • (16) The result has been to raze the platform of the governing socialist party to a charred mess.
  • (17) Andy Warhol's first Factory location was razed in the late 1960s.
  • (18) But I don’t think this gets to the heart of why the razing of the temple rightly matters so much to us, and why such concerns can be as powerful as the ones we have for individual lives.
  • (19) First is that it goes the way of Badia East, razed for high-rises, or Bar Beach, site of a massive land reclamation project that is turning nine square kilometres of Atlantic Ocean into what developers are touting as “the Manhattan of west Africa”, a residential and commercial mini-city called Eko Atlantic .
  • (20) Britain can now boast its place as the world’s leading internet economy, but if no action is taken, our success stories could be razed to the ground.