different between undulation vs maze

English

Etymology

undulate +? -ion, or borrowed from Medieval Latin undul?ti?; compare French ondulation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

undulation (countable and uncountable, plural undulations)

1. An instance or act of undulating.
   • 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka (republished by Eland, 2019; p. 77):

     But the next undulation would raise us, showing the island ablaze in the sunlight, an emerald of dazzling beauty resting lightly on the bosom of the sea.

2. A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
3. (music) A tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
4. A wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
5. A wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.
6. (medicine, dated) A feeling as if of an undulatory motion about the heart.
7. (medicine, dated) The distinctive motion of the matter within an abscess on being pressed when it is ripe for opening.

Derived terms

• undulationist

Translations

References

• undulation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

From Middle English mase, from an aphetic variant of Middle English masen (“to perplex, bewilder”); or perhaps from Old English *mæs (“delusion, bewilderment”); akin to Old English ?masian (“to perplex, confound”), Icelandic masa (“to chatter”). More at amaze.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?me?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophones: maise, maize

Noun

maze (plural mazes)

1. A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.
2. Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
3. Confusion of thought; state of bewilderment.

   Synonyms: perplexity, uncertainty

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

maze (third-person singular simple present mazes, present participle mazing, simple past and past participle mazed)

1. to amaze, astonish, bewilder

   • they so mazed and even stupified his Conscience

2. to daze, stupefy, or confuse

Translations

Anagrams

• Maez, Meza

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?maz?]

Noun

maze

1. vocative singular of maz

Middle English

Etymology 1

From masen.

Noun

maze

1. Alternative form of mase

Etymology 2

Probably from amased.

Verb

maze

1. Alternative form of masen