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tabloid - 5 dictionary results

tab⋅loid

[tab-loid]
–noun
1. a newspaper whose pages, usually five columns wide, are about one-half the size of a standard-sized newspaper page.
2. a newspaper this size concentrating on sensational and lurid news, usually heavily illustrated.
3. a short form or version; condensation; synopsis; summary.
–adjective
4. compressed or condensed in or as if in a tabloid: a tabloid article; a tabloid account of the adventure.
5. luridly or vulgarly sensational.

Origin:
1905–10; tabl(et) + -oid


tab⋅loid⋅ism, noun
tab·loid   (tāb'loid')   
n.  A newspaper of small format giving the news in condensed form, usually with illustrated, often sensational material.
adj.  
  1. In summary form; condensed.
  2. Lurid or sensational.

[From tabloid journalism, from Tabloid, trademark for a drug or chemical in condensed form.]
tab'loid'ism n.

Tabloid

Tab"loid\, n. [A table-mark.] A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.

Tabloid

Tab"loid\, a. Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.
Language Translation for : tabloid
Spanish: tabloide,
German: die Boulevardpresse,
Japanese: タブロイド版新聞

tabloid 
1884, "small tablet of medicine," trademark name (by Burroughs, Wellcome and Co.) for compressed or concentrated chemicals and drugs, formed from tablet + Gk.-derived suffix -oid, from oeides "like." By 1898, it was being used figuratively to mean a compressed form or dose of anything, hence tabloid journalism (1901), and newspapers that typified it (1918), so called for having short, condensed news articles and/or for being small in size.
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