journal

A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.

Adjective

  1. Daily.
    • […]his faint ſteedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did reſt[…]. - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie,...

Origin

From Middle English journal, from Anglo-Norman jurnal (“daily”), from Old French jornel (“day”) (whence modern French journal), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”). Doublet of diurnal and the journal from French.

Forms

journall

Related

diary diurnal Jupiter

Noun Entry 2

  1. A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
  2. A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
    • The university's biology department subscribes to half a dozen academic journals.
  3. A chronological record of payments or receipts.
  4. A general journal.
  5. A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.

Forms

journals journall

Synonyms

daybook diary

Derived

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Noun Entry 3

  1. The amount of land that can be worked in a day.
    • Yet the whole extent of cultured country, or all the fields actually cultivated for the ſupport of the inhabitants, will hardly exceed two millions of journaux (or day’s work); above three millions lie entirely waſte;...
    • The extent of these “Métairies” varies according to the number of the family of the métayer, and the nature of the soil, from 65 journaux (52 statute acres) to 30 journaux (24 acres), for the métayer generally...
    • ‘The surface of the downs, which form the landes of Bordeaux,’ says he, ‘being equal to 337,000 Bordeaux journaux, of 840 square toises, the amount required to fix the whole of these downs would be 8,000,000 livres....

Origin

From French journal. Doublet of diurnal and the journal from Middle English.

Forms

journaux journall

Noun engineering, mechanical

  1. the part of a rotating shaft or axle that rests on the bearing

Origin

Unknown, apparently of Scots origin. Perhaps from chirnel, from English kernel (“lump in the flesh”), owing to resemblance in shape.

Forms

journals journall

Derived

journal bearing journal box

Verb Entry 5

  1. To archive or record something.
  2. To scrapbook.
    • Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting,...

Forms

journals journaling journalling journaled journalled journall

Verb Entry 6

  1. To insert (a shaft, an axle, etc.) into a journal bearing.
    • In a harvester binder having a hollow shaft journalled at right angles to the main axle and driving motion from the main driving wheel, a spindle journalled within the hollow shaft and having the needle attached to one...
    • The cranks are placed upon posts, rafts, or boats in the stream, and journalled at the water-line, thus keeping one-half of the paddle-surface in action, while the common floating-wheel, or current-wheel, only keeps...
    • The combination of two side frames or plates and outer sides and the intermediate frame, a water trough at the short an intermediate frame or plate, an axle journalled in one of said end of said roller and partly along...

Forms

journals journaling journalling journaled journalled journall