slides

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of slide.

   The lab technician labeled the glass slides before placing them under the microscope.

   Two of the playground slides were closed for repairs over the weekend.

   Note

   One plural serves a crowd of different objects: playground slides, log slides on a mountainside, the sliding parts of a machine, and slides of earth and stone coming down a slope. The form itself never says which is meant, so the surrounding words must. The spelling is shared with the present-tense verb, which lets a technician slide slides under a microscope.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of slide.

   The runner slides into home base just ahead of the throw.

   Each glass panel slides smoothly along its recessed track.

   Note

   A present-tense form that works on both sides of the verb: the drawer slides shut, and she slides the drawer shut. It also carries the baseball runner who slides into a base and the sly look someone slides at a friend. Only the present adds -s. The past and past participle are both slid, never slided.

   She slides the note across the table without a word.

   The door slides open at a touch.

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