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jour·nal

[jur-nl]
noun
1.
a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations: She kept a journal during her European trip.
2.
a newspaper, especially a daily one.
3.
a periodical or magazine, especially one published for a special group, learned society, or profession: the October issue of The English Journal.
4.
a record, usually daily, of the proceedings and transactions of a legislative body, an organization, etc.
5.
Bookkeeping.
a.
a daybook.
b.
(in the double-entry method) a book into which all transactions are entered from the daybook or blotter to facilitate posting into the ledger.
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6.
Nautical. a log or logbook.
7.
Machinery. the portion of a shaft or axle contained by a plain bearing.
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Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Old French journal daily (adj. and noun) < Late Latin diurnālis diurnal

jour·nal·ar·y, adjective
jour·nal·ish, adjective
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Example Sentences
  • There is one journal that does it, and it's weird to everyone.
  • Let's take a look at what is going on in the experiment and what was reported in the journal article.
  • Have them write journal entries describing a productive day in the field.
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World English Dictionary
journal (ˈdʒɜːnəl)
 
n
1.  a newspaper or periodical
2.  a book in which a daily record of happenings, etc, is kept
3.  an official record of the proceedings of a legislative body
4.  accounting
 a.  Also called: Book of Original Entry one of several books in which transactions are initially recorded to facilitate subsequent entry in the ledger
 b.  another name for daybook
5.  the part of a shaft or axle in contact with or enclosed by a bearing
6.  a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
 
[C14: from Old French: daily, from Latin diurnālis; see diurnal]

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Word Origin & History

journal
c.1355, "book of church services," from Anglo-Fr. jurnal "a day," from O.Fr. journal, originally "daily" (adj.), from L.L. diurnalis "daily" (see diurnal). Sense of "daily record of transactions" first recorded 1565; that of "personal diary" is 1610, from a sense found in
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French. Journalism is 1833 in Eng., likewise from Fr. (where it is attested from 1781).
"Journalism will kill you, but it keeps you alive while you're at it." [Horace Greely]
Journalist "one whose work is to write or edit public journals or newspapers" is from 1693. Journalese "language typical of newspaper articles or headlines" is from 1882.
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Computing Dictionary

journal definition

operating system
An on-going record of transactions, such as database updates, file system writes, procedure calls or message transmissions. A journal differs from a simple log in that the contents of the journal can be used to reconstruct the state of the system after a failure by re-applying the transactions in the journal to a snapshot of the system previous state.
(2008-05-29)

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