(a.) Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error.
Example Sentences:
(1) A pair took off from the newly tilled bare earth, chasing in tandem, making mazy, quicksilver, patterns with their white tail feathers glinting against the soil, as if they were playing with sparklers.
(2) Eden Hazard’s mazy run through the middle started the move.
(3) When a branch of Mazi Mas – an enterprise that creates employment opportunities for women from migrant and refugee communities - opened in Sydney, if baffled insurance companies and regulators.
(4) Belgium’s threat came in a variety of ways – woven passing moves one moment, mazy dribbles the next, whipped crosses hoicked in from the flanks at times.
(5) Fortunately, says director Maggie Lloyd, it got a sympathetic ear from the “forward thinking” City of Sydney and could rely on the track record of the original Mazi Mas in the UK.
(6) John Stones made one mazy run that tore straight through a home midfield that parted too easily, and in Deulofeu, Barkley, Osman and the marauding Romelu Lukaku Everton had a front four that terrorised the City defence.
(7) I would just not commit that there will never be any changes in them,” Sessions told Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii during his confirmation hearing in Washington.
(8) Frontline ambulance workers at the scene of the blasts had experienced a “nightmare” and were being provided with psychological support, Mazy said.
(9) Barkley’s involvement always give England a more exciting feel and his contribution was also a reminder that a perfectly executed pass can be every bit as beautiful as a shot into the top corner or a mazy, dribbling run through the opposition defence.
(10) 73 min: Tevez ends a mazy run in from the left with a terrible shot from 15 yards out.
(11) Renaud Mazy, the managing director of St Luc hospital in Woluwe, said an emergency operation planned since the lockdown last November had been instigated.
(12) We are conveying specifics through classified channels,” wrote Warner and his colleagues Ron Wyden of Oregon, Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and independent Angus King of Maine.
(13) Although they parted ways creatively in 1998 (Topley-Bird has made three solo albums and worked with Massive Attack and Gorillaz), they've been in regular contact because of their daughter, Mazy, who is only one month younger than Maxinquaye.
(14) At one stage McNair roved forward on a mazy run that lifted the crowd but normal service resumed when Lingard blasted a regulation cross out for a Saints kick.
(15) The Senators signing the letter are: Ron Wyden (D-Or), Mark Udall (D-Co), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), Mark Kirk (R-Il), Dick Durbin (D-Il), Tom Udall (D-NM), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Jon Tester (D-Mt), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Dean Heller (R- Nev),Mark Begich (D-Alaska), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), Patty Murray (D-Wash), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Al Franken (D-Minn), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Chris Coons (D-Del), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn), Max Baucus (D-Mont), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc) and Mike Lee (R-Utah).
(16) Dervite headed another Spearing cross wide, but Bolton were far from secure at the back themselves, especially when the skilful 18-year-old winger Gray had the ball, as he showed by following a mazy run with a curling shot that Lonergan did well to beat away.
(17) 8.30pm GMT 43 min: Adam Johnson picks up the ball on the inside-right, cuts inside and emabarks on a mazy dribble that takes him into the Chelsea penalty area.
(18) Domínguez's mazy dribble exposed United's poor defending in the early stages, with only a superb Nemanja Vidic saving tackle delaying him from opening the scoring.
Zigzag
Definition:
(n.) Something that has short turns or angles.
(n.) A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
(n.) See Boyau.
(a.) Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.
(v. t.) To form with short turns.
(v. i.) To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The corresponding delta FeCO modes are identified at 574 and 566 cm-1, respectively, by virtue of the zigzag pattern of their isotopic shifts.
(2) Also, the tacos are probably delicious, and undoubtedly more authentic than the hipster joint with the zigzag taco holders and $12 margaritas.
(3) This Z-band is described as simple, since in longitudinal sections it has the appearance of a single zigzag pattern connecting the ends of actin filaments of opposite polarity from adjacent sarcomeres.
(4) Despite the fragile state of what Sir Mervyn King has called the "zigzag" economy, Osborne will repeat his mantra that there is no alternative to stringent spending cuts.
(5) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins and bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(6) Polystyrene microspheres or India ink particles adsorbed to gliding cells were actively displaced in either direction, their movement tracing either a regular zigzag or helical path along the filament surface.
(7) The helices stack in columns, zigzag rather than linear, by means of direct NH...OC head to tail hydrogen bonds.
(8) Others described victims being hurled around like mannequins, bodies littering the esplanade in the wake of the zigzagging truck.
(9) In nemaline myopathy and some cardiac muscles, the Z-band becomes greatly enlarged and contains multiple layers of a zigzag structure similar to that seen in normal muscle.
(10) She knew to bend double and run in zigzags to make herself a harder target.
(11) At the Montenvers railway turn right and zigzag easily up the extra 150m to grab great views of the pinnacles of the Aiguille Verte at 4,122m, Les Drus and the Mer de Glace (sea of ice).
(12) The detergent phase is organized thus in infinite zigzag chains parallel to the b axis of the P2(1)2(1)2(1) unit cell.
(13) For other hair types G1 and G3 (awl, auchene, zigzag) the duration of the growth period is approximately 3 days longer than in the control.
(14) EACH MUSCLE OF THE SYLLID (ANNELIDA: Polychaeta) proventriculus, the region of the gut posterior to the pharynx, contains a single zigzagging Z band, flanked on each side by a sequence of I-A-H-A-I bands defined by thick (60-90 nm) and thin (5 nm) filaments.
(15) We have developed a new surgical procedure which consists of a plantar zigzag incision, incision of the plantar aponeurosis, and microsurgical neurolysis of the interdigital nerve.
(16) The process of loss of resistance, similarly to that of its development, takes its course according to a zigzag curve, but in the opposite direction.
(17) These occurred before I began to use the zigzag incision which provides excellent exposure of the N.V. bundles ensuring their safety.
(18) Cars zigzag through dense traffic jams, cutting lanes, overtaking from the left or zipping past red lights.
(19) In 18 (82%) of 22 patients, arteriograms showed a hypovascular mass with fine wavy or zigzag (creeping-vine) neovascularity.
(20) The construction of the new type of grid is similar to a conventional one except that the lead strips are arranged in zigzag rather than linear pattern.