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journal
[ jur-nl ]
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.
- Nautical. a log or logbook.
- Machinery. the portion of a shaft or axle contained by a plain bearing.
verb (used without object)
- to write self-examining or reflective journal entries, especially in school or as part of psychotherapy:
Students should journal as part of a portfolio assessment program.
journal
/ ˈdʒɜːnəl /
noun
- a newspaper or periodical
- a book in which a daily record of happenings, etc, is kept
- an official record of the proceedings of a legislative body
- accounting
- Also calledBook of Original Entry one of several books in which transactions are initially recorded to facilitate subsequent entry in the ledger
- another name for daybook
- the part of a shaft or axle in contact with or enclosed by a bearing
- a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
Other Words From
- journal·ary adjective
- journal·ish adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of journal1
Example Sentences
In the new study, published Wednesday in the journal Frontiers of Microbiology, researchers report how a specific type of bacteria on the International Space Station survived these harsh space elements for three whole years.
To determine who these people were, Justin Lehmiller, Kinsey Fellow and lead author of the original study in the journal Leisure Sciences, conducted a secondary analysis of the data.
“The idea with those journals is if you can get one publication in one of those journals, it kind of makes your career,” says economist Zoe McLaren, an associate professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Her typical year’s output might include a scholarly book, articles in learned journals, encyclopedia entries, and short pieces in Good Housekeeping and Redbook that spun anthropological findings into practical advice.
The field was so underpopulated in those days, it didn’t even have its own journal.
The same Pediatrics journal notes that 17 states have some form of exception to the standard parental consent requirement.
The trials produced positive results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November.
John L. Smith is a columnist with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Later that morning I told him I was keeping a journal of our work together.
For James, wearing the shirt was “more of a shout-out to the family more than anything,” he told the Akron Beacon Journal.
My mother now tells me that she knew of this mistake, an error of the New York paper in copying the item from a Southern journal.
"Lettres et journal pour monsieur," interrupted a waiter, entering with two letters and the Times.
I shall then give an account of my various excursions in an Appendix, and afterwards resume the thread of my journal.
"If slightly cut before cooking, potatoes slip out of their skins easily," says a home journal.
M. Roland had recently been traveling in Germany, and had written a copious journal of his tour.
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