journal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a daily written record of experiences and observations

   I write in my journal every day.

2. 2
   noun

   a periodical dedicated to a particular subject

   I read medical journals.

3. 3
   noun

   a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred

   The store keeps a detailed sales journal.

4. 4
   noun

   A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.

   The university's biology department subscribes to half a dozen academic journals.

5. 5
   adj

   Daily.

   […]his faint ſteedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did reſt[…].

6. 6
   noun

   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; and 850,000 journaux are covered with ſand.

7. 7
   verb

   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 of its ends[…]

8. 8
   noun

   the part of the axle contained by a bearing

Etymology

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.