tabloid

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A small, compressed portion of a chemical, drug, food substance, etc.; a pill, a tablet.

   “One of the compartments was found to contain some forty compressed tabloids, which on analysis proved to be potassium bromide.”

2. isim In full tabloid cruiser: a small yacht used for cruising.

   “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.”

3. isim A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of a broadsheet, especially characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news.

   “[…] 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".”

4. isim A paper size 11 × 17 inches (279 × 432 millimetres) in dimensions.
5. sıfat In the form of a tabloid (noun senses 2 and 2.2): compressed or compact in size.

   “Wares other than drugs for compounding prescriptions are being brought in; tabloid medicines are being introduced, proprietary and other goods are coming in, and toilet and fancy articles of limited amounts are being displayed.”

6. sıfat Resembling the style of journalism generally associated with a tabloid newspaper: appealing to unsophisticated people, sensational, etc.

   “tabloid journalism”

7. fiil To express (something) in a compact or condensed manner, especially in the style of journalism generally associated with a tabloid newspaper (appealing to unsophisticated people, sensational, etc.).

   “This "tabloiding" of the latest fashions, we thought an excellent idea. Surely it's not the sole mission of a dry goods ad. to give news of bargains? Would not reliable information as to coming fashions be of equal interest to the average woman?”

8. fiil To convert (a newspaper) into a tabloid (noun sense 2.2) format.

   “The first key developments in the tabloiding of British newspapers are defined initially and literally by the shift of the Sun to a tabloid format in 1969 and the Daily Mail in 1971.”