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单词 tabloid
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tabloidn.adj.

Brit. /ˈtablɔɪd/, U.S. /ˈtæbˌlɔɪd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: tablet n., -oid suffix.
Etymology: < tabl- (in tablet n.) + -oid suffix.The term was invented by Burroughs, Wellcome, & Company and registered by them as a trademark on 14 Mar. 1884 (compare quot. 1884 at sense A. 1a). In 1903 J. S. Wellcome brought an action in the High Court ‘to establish his right to the exclusive use of the word ‘tabloid’ as indicating compressed drugs and medicines of the plaintiff's manufacture, and also for an injunction to restrain the defendants, who carry on their business as chemists in Manchester, from passing off their goods as those of the plaintiff. The defendants also applied..to rectify the Register of trademarks by removing therefrom the plaintiff's registered trademark of ‘tabloid’ on the ground that it was not a fancy or invented word capable of registration.’ ( Times (1903) 15 Dec. 3/2). The verdict was in favour of the plaintiff:1903 Mr Justice Byrne 20 Nov.–14 Dec. in Rep. Patent & Trade Mark Cases 21 69 The word Tabloid has become so well-known..in consequence of the use of it by the Plaintiff firm in connection with their compressed drugs that I think it has acquired a secondary sense in which it has been used and may legitimately be used so long as it does not interfere with their trade rights. I think the word has been so applied generally with reference to the notion of a compressed form or dose of anything. The verdict was upheld by the Court of Appeal in 1904. With use in sense A. 4 compare quot. 1913 at sense A. 4a.
A. n.
1.
a. Usually with capital initial. A proprietary name for: a small, flat, or compressed piece of a solid substance (esp. a medicinal or chemical one), a tablet; (also for) a tablet of tea.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > general chemical medicines > [noun]
sulphurc1400
crystals of tartar1605
cremor of tartar1656
cream of tartar1662
polychrest1728
neutral1770
sulphuret1789
arsenical1818
gallo-nitrate1841
glonoin1860
hepar1866
tabloid1884
Nujol1916
pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923
polyvinyl pyrrolidone1945
povidone1955
bromocriptine1974
1884 Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Apr. 334 Tabloid... Burroughs, Wellcome, & Company, Snow Hill Buildings, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C... Chemical Substances not included in Class I, used in Medicine and Pharmacy..Preparations of Food for Human Use.
1894 Bristol Mercury 2 Aug. 3/7 Messrs Burroughs, Wellcome, and Co.'s ‘Tabloids’ of pure compressed tea.
1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 695/1 Tabloids—Ichthyol per bott. 0/7½... Tea per tin 0/5.
1897 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. (Portsmouth) 24 Sept. 4/4 Burroughs, Wellcome, and Co...The Celebrated Kepler Malt Extract, Compressed drugs in tabloid form, including Photographic Tabloids in three varieties, for making Solutions the exact strength.
1904 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 18 Oct. 1743/2 Drugs and chemicals for human and veterinary use... Tabloid.
1958 Times 8 Oct. 3/3 Counsel then produced a packet of Aspirin ‘Tabloid’ manufactured by Messrs. Borroughs Wellcome & Co.
1978 Daily Mirror 19 Apr. 24/1 I found a metal box which used to contain ‘Tabloid’ tea.
1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) ix. 205 The household medicine cupboard of a typical diplomatic family at this time might have included the following:..12. Tabloids of antipyrin.
b. gen. Any small medicinal or chemical tablet; a pill. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > capsule
wafer1848
pearl1872
capsule1875
cachet1884
perle1887
tabloid1887
jelloid1898
wafer-cachet1898
Caplet1937
cap1942
Spansule1954
1887 Bow Bells Nov. 523/2 A ‘tabloid’ of the sugar, a tiny little bit only as large as a pin's head.
1888 Graphic 10 Mar. 242/3 Saccharin is now sold in granular and tabloid form ready for immediate use.
1894 Murray's Handbk. India (ed. 2) p. xx For medicine, plenty of quinine in 2 or 4 grain ‘tabloids’ or pills.
1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ix. 161 Morphia tabloids were served out to all the officers of quarters for administration to badly injured men.
1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House iii, in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War 100 You have..half a dozen tabloids of cyanide of potassium to poison yourself with.
1938 E. J. G. Forse Ceremonial Curiosities xxix. 149 It is wise to carry a few simple tabloids with you.
2. A compressed or concentrated version of something, in later use esp. with implication of a sensationalist, populist, or reductive approach resembling that of tabloid journalism.
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1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Jan. 7/3 Another sixpenny marvel is ‘Kendal and Dent's Edition of Everybody's Pocket Cyclopædia’. It is slim, and daintily bound in cloth—a sort of tabloid of ‘useful knowledge’.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 3 Jan. 3/1 Five short tableaux of drama which..might be described brutally as five tabloids of melodrama.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 5/2 While in literature the trend of taste is all in the direction of tabloids, composers seem ashamed of anything approaching terseness.
1935 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 27 Statements of a vague character, which are condensations of complex propositional wholes... To such propositions I have elsewhere given the name ‘tabloids’.
1988 J. Rose in Feminist Issues (1995) 71 72 Psychoanalysis is the intellectual tabloid of our culture.
3. A newspaper having pages half the size of those of the average broadsheet, usually characterized as popular in style and dominated by sensational stories. Cf. tabloid newspaper n. at Compounds 1a.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > popular
tabloid1901
tab1927
popular1949
1901 Forum Mar. 58 Go into any bus or train or lunch room at any hour of the day or night and you see men and boys and women and girls taking and enjoying their tabloids.
1918 W. E. Carson Northcliffe x. 304 Since 1908 Alfred Harmsworth, like his famous ‘tabloid’, has disappeared from view.
1926 Encycl. Brit. II. 1055/2 The introduction of tabloids may be explained..by the passing remark of Lord Northcliffe, ‘If some American does not start one I shall have to come over to do it.’
1957 Listener 31 Oct. 683/2 Newspapers have been allowed to transform themselves into tabloids with gossip columns, adulation of film stars, beauty contests and other requisites of the popular press of the West.
1978 Time 3 July 12/1 The Florida-based tabloid, dispatched ten reporters and photographers to scour the Riviera in quest of informants on the courtship.
1999 New Statesman 8 Nov. 12/2 The tabloids will not let him forget it because they sense another ex-lover who will spill the liquorice all-sorts.
4.
a. A small Sopwith biplane used in the First World War (1914–18). Now historical.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > with more than one wing either side > specific biplanes
tabloid1913
longhorn1914
pup1917
pursuit biplane1920
1913 Aeroplane 11 Dec. 635/2 The small speedy Sopwith biplane has been nicknamed the ‘Tabloid’ because it contains so many good qualities in such small compass.
1915 War Illustr. 20 Feb. 22/2 The ‘Tabloid’s supreme value lies in its speed and climbing power.
1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station x. 149 In addition to its maximum speed of 92 miles an hour the ‘Tabloid’ was remarkable in those days for its great speed range.
1956 Times 14 Dec. 13/4 Fred Sigrist was largely responsible for the construction of the early types of biplane, one of which, the ‘Tabloid’ won the Schneider Trophy in 1914.
1994 Theatre Jrnl. 46 519 The ‘tabloid’ is romanticized in relation to the larger, slower airplanes that it replaces.
b. In full tabloid cruiser. A small cruising yacht.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > types of yacht
steam-yacht1812
skimmer1844
schooner-yacht1876
cruiser1879
keel1883
skimming-dish1884
cutter-yacht1885
bulb-keel1893
keel-boat1893
forty1894
half-rater1894
forty-tonner1895
one-designer1897
raceabout1897
forty-footer1902
sonder1907
star1911
tonnage-cheater1912
scow1929
tabloid1930
Yngling1969
maxi yacht1974
1930 Yachting Monthly Oct. 428/1 T's ship, Honora, is, except for her draught, a ‘tabloid’ cruiser: 19 ft. LOA, with 5 ft. 9 in. beam.
1937 Yachting Monthly Nov. 17/1 Reflections on an Unusual Little Tabloid.
1957 L. Outhwaite Atlantic xxi. 324 I met a young American who had built himself a ‘tabloid’ cruiser.
2001 Canad. Yachting (Nexis) Jan. Winner of the Best Tabloid Cruiser award was Lorraine, a beautiful Folkboat owned by sailmaker Carol Hasse.
B. adj.
Designating something in the form of or likened to a tabloid (sense A. 1a); compressed; concentrated, esp. in order to be easily assimilated; (in later use also) sensationalistic; of or resembling tabloid journalism.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [adjective] > make (more) dense or solid > by compaction or compression
compressedc1374
compacta1398
hard-pressed1562
compacted1598
condensed1606
compress1647
constipated1647
confert1661
clotted1674
noddena1864
tabloid1890
1890 Times 12 Nov. 10/3 Mr. Stanley brought back..one of the medicine chests fitted with these compressed tabloid medicines.
1898 Natural Science Feb. 112 This presumed tabloid condition [of the flints] is brought about by a presumed extreme cold.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 1 Apr. 10/2 The proprietor intends to give in tabloid form all the news printed by other journals.
1920 R. Macaulay Potterism vi. iii. 232 People might like their science in cheap and absurd tabloid form... The Potter press exulted in scientific discoveries made easy.
1928 Melody Maker Feb. 145/2 Mr. Harold Craxton's playing on the piano of the ‘Three Blind Mice’..as a tabloid Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt.
1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. ii. ii. 232 To the distant reader of the tabloid Press..it looked as if history had at last met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most ambitious dream.
1951 A. Green & J. Laurie Show Biz 571/2 Tab show, tabloid version of a musical.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 19 July It's tabloid TV, news as entertainment, appealing to the lowest common denominator.
1996 PMLA 111 233/1 Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton provided a tabloid version of the stories of Antony-Aeneas and Cleopatra-Dido.

Compounds

C1.
a.
tabloid newspaper n.
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1901 Hamilton (Ohio) Democrat 3 Jan. 4/1 To the expert in advertising the tabloid newspaper will especially appeal.
1962 V. Nabokov Pale Fire 22 He was back in the car, reading a tabloid newspaper which I had thought no poet would deign to touch.
1998 Independent 14 May i. 18/1 The capacity of tabloid newspaper readers to ironise and deconstruct what they read should never be underestimated.
b.
tabloid journalism n.
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1901 Westm. Gaz. 1 Jan. 9/3 He advocated tabloid journalism.
1942 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 219 171/2 Tabloid journalism, effectively introduced just after the war, for a time out-did the Hearst-Pulitzer extravagances by playing up murder, violence, and immorality without even a pretence at sanctimony.
1998 Gay Times Aug. 88/2 One particularly nasty piece..was described here with venom as ‘a despicable piece of tabloid journalism’.
C2.
tabloid-speak n. originally and chiefly British (freq. depreciative) language or style considered characteristic of tabloid journalism; tabloid jargon; cf. tabloidese n.
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1981 Guardian Weekly 27 Dec. 21/5 Having always baffled us with art-speak are they now going to insult us with tabloid-speak?
1991 Independent 6 July 37/1 Peter Joslin, the senior police spokesman on motoring matters, or ‘Britain's top traffic cop’ in tabloid-speak, has spoken out in favour of increasing the limit.
2006 Financial Times (Nexis) 30 June (Sport section) 11 Klinsmann has, in tabloid-speak, gone in the space of a few weeks from zero to hero.

Derivatives

ˈtabloidy adj. = tabloidesque adj.
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1983 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. c25/4 Most of the artists..practiced a crude and sentimental kind of realism that reads more as political cartoon than esthetic endeavor. Egregious examples are [the] tabloidy ‘Bread’, depicting a thief stealing a loaf through the broken glass of a bakery window.
1994 Q Aug. 146/1 Well maybe if dog's-dinner layouts, garish graphics, wrong-period photos with generally inane captions and tabloidy text inserts at every turn are your thing then, yes, they would make a reasonable stocking filler.
2005 B. Mezrich Busting Vegas xx. 181 There was one other person in the room..facing the same brightly lit mirror, reading a tabloidy magazine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tabloidv.

Brit. /ˈtablɔɪd/, U.S. /ˈtæbˌlɔɪd/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: tabloid n.
Etymology: < tabloid n.
transitive. To express briefly or concisely; to condense or concentrate, (in later use) esp. in a populist or reductive way, resembling that of tabloid journalism.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > put concisely or briefly [verb (transitive)]
brevyc1503
stenography1652
to spell‥short1857
nutshell1883
tabloid1909
1909 Times 21 Aug. 10/6 Where in one week a drama was presented at the theatre, the next week it was ‘tabloided’ and appeared at the music-hall.
1916 D. Barnes in Morning Telegraph (N.Y.) 26 Nov. ii. 1/1 There is the nerve-racking half-hour before dinner when the incredible folly of the world must be tabloided into wisdom.
1934 Punch 21 Mar. 329/2 Also there is a certain sketchiness in the tale as tabloided for the two hours' traffic of our stage, and some of the connecting-links seem to have got lost in the process.
2006 Observer (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Music Monthly Suppl.) 65 By the time we reached Girls Aloud, the hardcore femaleness of The Slits as tabloided by The Spice Girls had been completely gutted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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