Slipper vs Sleeper - What's the difference?
slipper | sleeper |
A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
Such a shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom or house slipper.
A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
A person who slips.
* 1955 , , Sobriety and Beyond , Hazelden Publishing (1997), ISBN 978-1-56838-242-5,
* 1995 , Russ McDonald, “Sex, Lies, and Shakespearean Drama”, in Jeanne Addison Roberts (editor), part one of Peggy O’Brien (editor), Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching ''Twelfth Night'' and Othello, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 978-0-671-76047-2,
* 2001 , Barry M. Levenson, Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law , University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-17510-8,
A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
(engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
* 1981 , Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book , Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
* 2004 , James Morgan, Stretching Forward to Learn , World Corporal Punishment Research
(obsolete) slippery
(UK, Australia, NZ) To repeatedly strike the buttocks with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.
* 1981 , Andrew Loudon, Staffroom mole leaks secret of his school's beatings book , Daily Mail and General Trust, World Corporal Punishment Research
*:"One boy was slippered five times in four days for offences such as missing detention, fooling about and being out of bounds."
Someone who sleeps.
That which lies dormant, as a law.
* Francis Bacon
A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
A railroad sleeping car.
Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
A goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish of the family .
A nurse shark.
A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
(slang) An automobile which, not too quick out of the factory, has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.
(rail transport, British) A railroad tie.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1901
, title = The Fighting in North China (up to the Fall of Tientsin City)
, first = George
, last = Gipps
, location = Shanghai
, publisher = Kelly and Walsh
, ol = 23299616M
, page = 40
, pageurl = http://archive.org/stream/fightinginnorthc00gipppage/40/mode/2up
, passage = The train, minus the three abandoned trucks, again proceeded at a slow pace, with a pump trolley doing pilot ahead ; this was very necessary as a great many sleepers were found to have been burnt underneath the fishplates.
}}
(carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists]] beneath and [[floorboard, floorboards above.
(nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
(nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
As nouns the difference between sleeper and slipper
is that sleeper is someone who sleeps while slipper is a low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.As an adjective slipper is
slippery.As a verb slipper is
to repeatedly strike the buttocks with a plimsoll as corporal punishment.slipper
English
(wikipedia slipper)Noun
(en noun)- Get out of bed, put on your slippers , and come downstairs.
page 130:
- He is a frequent “slipper ,” but doesn’t seem to have sufficient intelligence upon which to ever build permanent sobriety and happiness.
page 3:
- Virtually all human action is liable to opposing interpretations, depending mainly upon distance: to take the familiar case of the banana peel, the fall is painful to the slipper , hilarious to the spectator across the street.
page 7:
- Slipping on a banana peel does not mean big bucks for the “slipper ” if the “slippee” has a good law firm representing it.
- "Mrs Marlene Foster , an opponent of the slipper, said her son Gary had a bottom "as red as a beetroot" after he was punished for writing on desks. "
- "All teachers had what was referred to as a 'slipper', but in reality was a cut down gym shoe designed for smacking our bottoms."
Synonyms
* (low shoe) babouche, pantofle * (low shoe worn indoors) flip-flop, sandal, thongDerived terms
* Japanese slipper * slipper animalcule * slipper chair * slipper flower * slipper limpet * slipperwortAdjective
(en adjective)- O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope / Of mortal men. — Spenser.
Verb
(en verb)External links
* (wikipedia "slipper")Anagrams
* English agent nouns ----sleeper
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- I'm a light sleeper : I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.
- She's a heavy sleeper : it takes a lot to wake her up.
- Therefore let penal laws, if they have been sleepers of long, or if they be grown unfit for the present time, be by wise judged confined in the execution
- We spent a night on an uncomfortable sleeper between Athens and Vienna.
- A box-office bomb when it first came out, the film was a sleeper , becoming much more popular decades after being released.
- Aaron, Devin, and Laura looked so comfy in their sleepers .