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Maze vs. Haze — What's the Difference?

Maze vs. Haze — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Maze and Haze

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Maze

A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching tour puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching ("unicursal") patterns that lead unambiguously through a convoluted layout to a goal.

Haze

Haze is traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon in which dust, smoke, and other dry particulates obscure the clarity of the sky. The World Meteorological Organization manual of codes includes a classification of horizontal obscuration into categories of fog, ice fog, steam fog, mist, haze, smoke, volcanic ash, dust, sand, and snow.

Maze

An intricate, usually confusing network of interconnecting pathways, as in a garden; a labyrinth.

Haze

A slight obscuration of the lower atmosphere, typically caused by fine suspended particles
The cold air has no pollution and very little haze
There was a thick haze on this October morning

Maze

A physical situation in which it is easy to get lost
A maze of bureaucratic divisions.
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Haze

A state of mental confusion
An alcoholic haze

Maze

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.

Haze

Obscure with a haze
A clump of islands, very green, but hazed in cloud and mist

Maze

Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle
A maze of government regulations.

Haze

Force (a new or potential recruit to the military or a university fraternity) to perform strenuous, humiliating, or dangerous tasks
Rookies were mercilessly hazed

Maze

To bewilder or astonish.

Haze

Drive (cattle) while on horseback
He hazed them on and they clambered up through the rocks

Maze

To stupefy; daze.

Haze

Atmospheric moisture, dust, smoke, and vapor that diminishes visibility.

Maze

A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.

Haze

A partially opaque covering
Let the polish dry to a haze before buffing it.

Maze

Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.

Haze

A vague or confused state of mind.

Maze

(archaic) Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment.

Haze

To become misty or hazy; blur.

Maze

To amaze, astonish, bewilder.

Haze

To persecute or harass with meaningless, difficult, or humiliating tasks.

Maze

To daze or stupefy.

Haze

To initiate, as into a college fraternity, by exacting humiliating performances from or playing rough practical jokes upon.

Maze

A wild fancy; a confused notion.

Haze

Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility. fog, mist.}}

Maze

Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.

Haze

A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.

Maze

A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.
Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook.
The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate,Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error.

Haze

An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.
The soap left a persistent haze on the drinking glasses.
The furniture has a haze, possibly from some kind of wax.

Maze

A complex and confusing system or set of rules that causes bwilderment; as, a maze of environemntal regulations.

Haze

(figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.

Maze

To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.

Haze

The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.

Maze

To be bewildered.

Haze

Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.

Maze

Complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost

Haze

To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.

Maze

Something jumbled or confused;
A tangle of government regulations

Haze

To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college fraternity or military unit.

Haze

To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.

Haze

(transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.

Haze

(transitive) To use aversive stimuli on (a wild animal, such as a bear) to encourage it to keep its distance from humans.

Haze

Light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness.
O'er the skyThe silvery haze of summer drawn.
Above the world's uncertain haze.

Haze

A state of confusion, uncertainty, or vagueness of thought or perception; as, after the explosion, people were wandering around in a haze.

Haze

To be hazy, or thick with haze.

Haze

To harass by exacting unnecessary, disagreeable, or difficult work.

Haze

To harass or annoy by playing abusive or shameful tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; - used esp. of college students, as an initiation rite into a fraternity or other group; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.

Haze

Atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility

Haze

Confusion characterized by lack of clarity

Haze

Become hazy, dull, or cloudy

Haze

Harass by imposing humiliating or painful tasks, as in military institutions

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