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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

jour·nal

[jur-nl] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations: She kept a journal during her European trip.

2.	a newspaper, esp. a daily one.

3.	a periodical or magazine, esp. 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.

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.

6.	Nautical. a log or logbook.

7.	Machinery. the portion of a shaft or axle contained by a plain bearing.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME < OF journal daily (adj. and n.) < LL diurnālis diurnal

]

—Related forms

jour·nal·ar·y, adjective

jour·nal·ish, adjective

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jour·nal (jûr'nəl) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. A personal record of occurrences, experiences, and reflections kept on a regular basis; a diary.
2. An official record of daily proceedings, as of a legislative body.
3. Nautical A ship's log.
4. A daybook.
5. A book of original entry in a double-entry system, listing all transactions and indicating the accounts to which they belong.
Accounting
1. A daybook.
2. A book of original entry in a double-entry system, listing all transactions and indicating the accounts to which they belong.
A newspaper.
A periodical presenting articles on a particular subject: a medical journal.
The part of a machine shaft or axle supported by a bearing.

[Middle English, breviary, from Old French, daily, breviary, from Late Latin diurnālis, daily; see diurnal.]

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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 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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journal
noun
1.	a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations [syn: diary]
2.	a periodical dedicated to a particular subject; "he reads the medical journals"
3.	a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred [syn: daybook]
4.	a record book as a physical object
5.	the part of the axle contained by a bearing

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journal 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.
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Journal

Jour"nal\, a. [F., fr. L. diurnalis diurnal, fr. diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. See Diurnal.] Daily; diurnal. [Obs.]

Whiles from their journal labors they did rest. --Spenser.

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Journal

Jour"nal\, n. [F. journal. See Journal, a.]

1. A diary; an account of daily transactions and events. Specifically: (a) (Bookkeeping) A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions. (b) (Naut.) A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc. (c) (Legislature) The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk. (d) A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc.; a periodical; a magazine.

2. That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey. [Obs. & R.] --B. Jonson.

3. (Mach.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box.

Journal box, or Journal bearing (Mach.) the carrier of a journal; the box in which the journal of a shaft, axle, or pin turns.

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