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/ˈtæblɔɪd/ · noun
(archaic) 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.
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.
‘It's those tabloids!’ Conroy stamped his foot feebly as he blew his nose. ‘They’ve knocked me out.’
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.
"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!"
"No drops or tabloids or anything of that kind?" "Certainly not; the medicines were kept in my room."
Travellers, explorers and missionaries are enabled to carry the most effective medicines in the smallest possible space by using ‘Tabloid’ Medicine cases as supplied to [Henry Morton] Stanley and to all leading expeditions. ‘Tabloid’ medicines contain absolutely accurate doses of the purest drugs, require neither weighing nor measuring, and retain their activity after exposure to the most trying climates.
[T]he flints of the plateau drifts are neither 'slabs' nor 'tablets,' they are of all shapes from rounded Eocene to hardly worn and sub-angular pebbles, differing but little from the mean of a score of Palaeolithic gravels. This presumed tabloid condition is bought about by a presumed 'Extreme Cold'; which, of course, is warmed into sunshine by the light of actual fact.
Use tabloid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tabloid means (archaic) A small, compressed portion of a chemical, drug, food substance, etc.; a pill, a tablet..
Common synonyms include yellow journalism, sheet, rag.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
One of the compartments was found to contain some forty compressed tabloids, which on analysis proved to be potassium bromide.
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