All 5 Uses of
labyrinth
in
Oryx and Crake
- To access the more disgusting and forbidden sites — those for which you had to be over eighteen, and for which you needed a special password — Crake used his Uncle Pete's private code, via a complicated method he called a lily-pad labyrinth.†
p. 86.0
- Still, they dutifully lit up a joint, hacked into Uncle Pete's digital charge card via a new labyrinth, and started surfing.†
p. 89.6 *
- It could be dangerous — it could leave a footprint for anyone who might manage to trace a way through the labyrinth — but Crake did it anyway.†
p. 91.3
- I can't risk that with a labyrinth.†
p. 181.1
- He was to cudgel his brains and spend ten-hour days wandering the labyrinths of the thesaurus and cranking out the verbiage.†
p. 248.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(labyrinth) a maze (a complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost)
or (figuratively): anything so complicated that it is extremely confusingThe word "labyrinth" comes from the name of the maze of passages where, in Greek mythology, Theseus had to escape from the Minotaur. -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, labyrinth can refer to a complex anatomical system of interconnecting cavities -- especially the inner ear