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noun

Journal n.

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.

That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey. (Obs. & R.)

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

adjective

Journal adj. Daily; diurnal. (Obs.) "Whiles from their journal labors they did rest."

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Etymology of 'Journal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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