tabloid vs tab

tabloid and tab both are nouns.

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

As nouns, tabloid and tab are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of tabloid include yellow journalism.

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