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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... insignificant event happened about this time, that set in motion influences of great moment, the effects of which are still to be felt and seen. Robert Davis' sister in Michigan was a regular subscriber to a religious journal. At this time she felt led to ...

— Around Old Bethany • Robert Lee Berry

... to draw attention in this chapter to the painted group of ten human figures lately discovered on a rock shelter at Cogul, near Lerida, in Catalonia, and figured and described in the admirable French journal called "L'Anthropologie." These figures are those of young women dressed in short skirts and curious sleeves, the hair done up in a conical mass rising from the sides to the top of the head. Each figure is about ten inches high. The great interest about these drawings ...

— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester

... cases we took in was that of the editor of a well-known sporting journal in England. He had shown his appreciation of the true sporting instinct by going out to Belgium and joining the army as a mitrailleuse man. If there is one place where one may hope for excitement, it is in an armoured car with a mitrailleuse. The mitrailleuse men are picked dare-devils, ...

— A Surgeon in Belgium • Henry Sessions Souttar

... geological tour in North Wales, I found a letter from Henslow, informing me that Captain Fitz-Roy was willing to give up part of his own cabin to any young man who would volunteer to go with him without pay as naturalist to the Voyage of the "Beagle". I have given, as I believe, in my MS. Journal an account of all the circumstances which then occurred; I will here only say that I was instantly eager to accept the offer, but my father strongly objected, adding the words, fortunate for me, "If you can find any ...

— The Autobiography of Charles Darwin - From The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin • Charles Darwin

... had passed with the Brahmin, with the little daughter of Sing Fou, and my rambling over the neighbouring heights, all recurred to my mind, and I almost regretted the pleasures I had relinquished. I tried, with more success, to beguile the time by making notes in my journal; and after having devoted about an hour to this object, I returned to the telescope, and now took occasion to examine the figure of the earth near the Poles, with a view of discovering whether its form favoured Captain Symmes's theory of an aperture ...

— A Voyage to the Moon • George Tucker

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