journal
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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.
Origin:
1325–75; Middle English < Old French journal daily (adj. and noun) < Late Latin diurnālis diurnal
1325–75; Middle English < Old French journal daily (adj. and noun) < Late Latin diurnālis diurnal
Related forms
jour·nal·ar·y, adjective
jour·nal·ish, adjective
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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journal (ˈdʒɜːnəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 | |
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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
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 systemAn 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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Example sentences
Have them write journal entries describing a productive day in the field.
Then the journal editor had a serious health problem that delayed publication of any issues of this journal.
Let's take a look at what is going on in the experiment and what was reported in the journal article.
One way to improve your garden year after year is to keep a garden journal.
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