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# slipper

«slipper» in Mova's school dictionary: **A soft, comfortable shoe you wear indoors** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a slipper, slippers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A soft, comfortable shoe you wear indoors. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slipper/#m1)

2) Cinderella's glass slipper in the fairy tale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slipper/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you put slippers on at home. In stories, Cinderella's glass slipper fits only her. In maths, slippers come in pairs: 5 pairs means 10 slippers. Phrases: a pair of slippers, glass slipper.

### examples

- Put your slippers on; the floor is cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slipper/#x1)
- Grandpa's slippers are by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slipper/#x2)
- Cinderella lost her glass slipper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slipper/#x3)
- The dog chewed my slipper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slipper/#x4)
- I got fluffy slippers for my birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slipper/#x5)
- How many slippers are in 4 pairs? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slipper/#x6)

### note

Countable, usually plural: slippers, a pair of slippers. Not the same as «slippery» (hard to hold). Maths: 1 pair = 2 slippers.

### In the corpora

- [An AI that learned what cats look like can be fooled by something fluffy and cat-shaped, such as a slipper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/11/)
- [Badger gives them dry clothes and slippers, washes Mole's cut leg and puts a plaster on it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/37-willows-ch4-part1-mr-badger/4/)
- [Ollie in Bristol put a rubber spider in his dad's slipper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/438-funny-pranks/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «slipper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/slipper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.