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noun

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

a newspaper, especially a daily one.

a periodical or magazine, especially one published for a special group, learned society, or profession: the October issue of The English Journal.

a record, usually daily, of the proceedings and transactions of a legislative body, an organization, etc.

Bookkeeping.

a daybook.

(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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Nautical. a log or logbook.

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

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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Ten leading management scholars weigh in on the issue in a special issue of the journal.

Owning a prestigious journal has thus become a lucrative business, which many people believe is being abused.

One-of-a-kind journal featuring award-winning artwork.

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Ten leading management scholars weigh in on the issue in a special issue of the journal.

Owning a prestigious journal has thus become a lucrative business, which many people believe is being abused.

One-of-a-kind journal featuring award-winning artwork.

Journal article explanations of how science works often differ from the actual process.

In his journal he wrote that he was not bothered by the residents' propensity for cannibalism.

One way to improve your garden year after year is to keep a garden journal.

In the scientific community, journal citations are the coin of the realm.

If you're in finance, you'll have to do it or you won't get anything published in any reasonable journal.

Have them write journal entries describing a productive day in the field.

She also kept an illustrated journal and did dozens of drawings.

Faraway-and each contains a journal in which visitors have bared their souls, sometimes happily, sometimes not.

Clark's journal records huge mounds of dried salmon-as much as five tons-piled up alongside the river.

One of the course requirements was to keep a weekly journal in which students would reflect on.

Criticism led journal to re-examine controversial paper that found higher death rate in babies born at home.

Even worse, they cite research in a bogus scientific journal.

The book and journal rates apply only to such advertising.

And the marginal cost of accessing a journal article is pretty much zero.

Let's take a look at what is going on in the experiment and what was reported in the journal article.

Indeed, to make a film often entails as much work as writing a journal article.

Science, the journal that published the two human-cloning papers, is now retracting them.

There is also a baby wiki on history journal response times.

Ask students to write journal entries describing their encounter with the escaping slave.

If you don't have any journal publications yet, hold back the paper from the conference volume, and send it to a journal instead.

Another study published a couple of weeks ago in the same journal brought to light a surprising aspect of bird migration:.

Why launch a literary journal now, given the enormous.

Then the journal editor had a serious health problem that delayed publication of any issues of this journal.

Also, you should not list the journal because doing so could undermine the double blind process.

Journal article warns against an increased reliance on graduates of foreign.

There is one journal that does it, and it's weird to everyone.

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World English Dictionary

journal (ˈdʒɜːn^əl)

—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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