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Journal vs Tabloid - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between journal and tabloid

is that journal is daily while tabloid is in the format of a tabloid.

As nouns the difference between journal and tabloid

is that journal is a diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook while tabloid is a newspaper having pages half the dimensions of the standard format, especially one that favours stories of a sensational nature over more serious news.

As a verb journal

is to archive or record something.

journal

English

Alternative forms

* journall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Daily.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
    • his faint steedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did rest [...].

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
  • A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
  • (engineering) The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings.
  • (computing) A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.

    • Derived terms

    * e-journal * journalism * journalist * academic journal * item journal * transaction journal * before image journal * after image journal * shadow server journal * mirror server journal * scientific journal * scholarly journal

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To archive or record something.
  • To scrapbook.
    • ----

    tabloid

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (publishing) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of the standard format, especially one that favours stories of a sensational nature over more serious news.

    • Synonyms

    * scandal sheet, tab (colloquial), yellow press

    Antonyms

    * broadsheet

    Adjective

    (-)
  • In the format of a .
  • Relating to a tabloid or tabloids.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}

    See also

    * compact * quality newspaper ----