tab vs tabloid

tab and tabloid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tab	Yes	No	No	No
tabloid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tab and tabloid are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of tab include yellow journalism.

tab (noun)	tabloid (noun)
a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet	newspaper with half-size pages
a short strip of material attached to or projecting from something in order to facilitate opening or identifying or handling it	sensationalist journalism
the key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation
the bill in a restaurant
sensationalist journalism