tabloid – English noun declension

English noun forms of tabloid

Noun: tabloid
Singulartabloid
Pluraltabloids

Sample Sentences

  • One of the compartments was found to contain some forty compressed tabloids, which on analysis proved to be potassium bromide. [1890 November 15, “Medicines Supplied to the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition”, in Thomas H. Wakley, Thomas Wakley, Jun., editors, The Lancet, volume II, number 3507, London: [Thomas H. Wakley and Thomas Wakley, Jun.] […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1037, column 1:]
  • A large number of tabloids are contained in a very small bottle, and only require crushing and dissolving in the stated quantity of water to produce a large volume of solution. [1908 October 17, “Our Note Book. Photographic Tabloids.”, in The Boy's Own Paper, volume XXXI, number 3, London: “Boy’s Own Paper” Office […], →OCLC, page 64, column 3:]
  • ‘It's those tabloids!’ Conroy stamped his foot feebly as he blew his nose. ‘They’ve knocked me out.’ [1911, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Same Boat”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 70:]
  • You have a couple of thousand pounds in exchequer bills, 50,000 shares worth tenpence a dozen, and half a dozen tabloids of cyanide of potassium to poison yourself with when you are found out. [1913–1916 (date written; first performed 1920 November), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes”, in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets of the War, London: Constable and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, Act III, page 100:]
  • "Crook in the guts," he says tersely. The picturesque reports of previously-treated and disgusted patients have left him doubtful, and he casts an anathematising eye upon the "Black Jack" bottle. "Tabloids and duty!" says the doctor, and the sufferer sighs with relief. There's no taste in tabloids, anyhow, and he reckons the doctor "ain't a bad poor something, after all!" [1914 October 11, “In camp: The day’s work of a W.A. soldier”, in The Sunday Times, number 875, Perth, W.A.: E. W. Finn for “The Sunday Times” Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 8:]
  • "No drops or tabloids or anything of that kind?" "Certainly not; the medicines were kept in my room." [1928, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club:]
  • This boat Mayfay has been admirable as a tabloid cruiser and while Sure Mike is about her same size, Sure Mike is far more nicely modeled; she will not have Mayfay's 17-mile-an-hour homespun plainness. [1930 September, E. Weston Farmer, “Sure Mike—a New Idea in Cruisers: The Design and Specifications for a Rough Water Hydroplane for Big Outboards which Carries a Shelter Cabin and which can Cruise in Any Water Safe for Any Boat of Her Inches […] Part I”, in Charles F[rederic] Chapman, editor, Motor Boating: The Yachtsman’s Magazine, volume XLVI, number 3, New York, N.Y.: [s.n.], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42, column 2:]
  • […] Lyle Stuart, […] is known—notorious would be the proper word—for his publishing and writing in the fields of obscenity and extreme leftism: he puts out a sort of tabloid called "The Independent". [1967 May 17, Edward Hunter, “Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 [Exhibit 2: Anatomy of a Film Analysis of ‘Three Faces of Cuba’]”, in Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 90th Congress, First Session (United States Senate), volume 113, part 10, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12998, column 2:]
  • A public school in Moperville, where the local newspaper is sold in neighboring towns with all the regard of a tabloid. / We've got a reputation to protect! We can only report on confirmed monsters, like mega hogs, or Bigfoot! [2009 January 20, Dan Shive, “Sister 2: Part 5: Moperville News”, in El Goonish Shive (webcomic), archived from the original on 05 Nov 2024:]
  • Train operating companies get plenty of column inches in the tabloids, usually for negative reasons. Happily, Southeastern is worthy of praise for having made The Sun for something positive. [2024 February 21, Nick Brodrick, “Inclusion and Development for All”, in Rail, number 1003, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 62:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Italic *taðlā
3. Latin tabula
4. Old French table
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
6. Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
7. Latin -ittus
8. Old French -ete
9. Old French tabletebor.
10. Middle English tablet
11. English tablet
12. Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
13. Latin -o-
14. Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
15. Proto-Indo-European *-os
16. Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
17. Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
18. Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
19. Proto-Indo-European *-os
20. Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
21. Proto-Hellenic *-ēs
22. Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
23. Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
24. Latin -oīdēslbor.
25. English -oid
26. English tabloid
27. The noun is derived from tabl(et) + -oid (suffix meaning ‘having the likeness of, resembling’), originally coined by the United Kingdom firm Burroughs, Wellcome & Company as a brand name for their medicines and other products such as tea in tablet form and registered as a trademark on 14 March 1884.
28. Noun sense 2 (“compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature”) is influenced by noun sense 2.2 (“newspaper characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news”).
29. The adjective and verb are derived from the noun.

Verbs referencing "tabloid"

Italian Nouns tabloid, Romanian Nouns tabloid, Finnish Nouns tabloidi, Catalan Nouns tabloide, French Nouns tabloïd, German Nouns Tabloid.