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 →

2) Cinderella's glass slipper in the fairy tale. tree →

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 →
• Grandpa's slippers are by the fire. tree →
• Cinderella lost her glass slipper. tree →
• The dog chewed my slipper. tree →
• I got fluffy slippers for my birthday. tree →
• How many slippers are in 4 pairs? tree →

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.
• Badger gives them dry clothes and slippers, washes Mole's cut leg and puts a plaster on it.
• Ollie in Bristol put a rubber spider in his dad's slipper.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «slipper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.