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jour·nal

(jûr′nəl)

a. A personal record of occurrences, experiences, and reflections kept on a regular basis; a diary.

b. An official record of daily proceedings, as of a legislative body.

c. Nautical A ship's log.

2. Accounting

a. A daybook.

b. A book of original entry in a double-entry system, listing all transactions and indicating the accounts to which they belong.

3. A newspaper.

4. A periodical presenting articles on a particular subject: a medical journal.

5. The part of a machine shaft or axle supported by a bearing.

v. jour·naled or jour·nalled, journaling, journals

v.intr.

To write one's observations or thoughts in a journal: spent all day journaling about the trip.

[Middle English, breviary, from Old French, daily, breviary, from Late Latin diurnālis, daily; see diurnal.]

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journal

(ˈdʒɜːnəl)

1. (Journalism & Publishing) a newspaper or periodical

2. a book in which a daily record of happenings, etc, is kept

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an official record of the proceedings of a legislative body

4. (Accounting & Book-keeping) accounting

a. Also called: Book of Original Entry one of several books in which transactions are initially recorded to facilitate subsequent entry in the ledger

b. another name for daybook

5. (Mechanical Engineering) the part of a shaft or axle in contact with or enclosed by a bearing

6. (Mechanical Engineering) a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle

[C14: from Old French: daily, from Latin diurnālis; see diurnal]

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jour•nal

(ˈdʒɜr nl)
n.

1. a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations.

2. a newspaper, esp. a daily one.

3. a periodical or magazine, esp. one published for a group, learned society, or profession.

4. a record, usu. daily, of the proceedings and transactions of a legislative body or an organization.

5. (in double-entry bookkeeping) a book into which all transactions are entered before being posted into the ledger.

6. a log or logbook.

7. the portion of a shaft or axle contained by a plain bearing.

v.t.

8. to enter in a journal.

[1325–75; Middle English < Old French journal daily (adj. and n.) < Late Latin diurnālis diurnal]

journal

A journal is a magazine that deals with a specialized subject. Many magazines have Journal as part of their name.

...the British Medical Journal.

All our results are published in scientific journals.

A journal is also a kind of diary in which you keep a record of events or progress.

My doctor told me to keep a journal of everything I ate.

Be Careful!
Don't refer to a newspaper as a 'journal'.

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Noun	1.	journal - a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations diary piece of writing, written material, writing - the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing" blog, web log - a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies; "postings on a blog are usually in chronological order"
	2.	journal - a periodical dedicated to a particular subject; "he reads the medical journals" periodical - a publication that appears at fixed intervals annals - reports of the work of a society or learned body etc
	3.	journal - a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred daybook account book, book of account, ledger, leger, book - a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books"
	4.	journal - a record book as a physical object book, volume - physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together; "he used a large book as a doorstop" daybook, ledger - an accounting journal as a physical object; "he bought a new daybook" diary - a personal journal (as a physical object)
	5.	journal - the part of the axle contained by a bearing axle - a shaft on which a wheel rotates

journal

noun

1. magazine, record, review, register, publication, bulletin, chronicle, gazette, periodical, zine (informal) All our results are published in scientific journals.

2. newspaper, paper, daily, weekly, monthly, tabloid He was a spokesperson for The New York Times and some other journals.

3. diary, record, history, log, notebook, chronicle, annals, yearbook, commonplace book, daybook On the plane he wrote in his journal.

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Translations

مَجَلَّه ، جَريدَهمُذَكَّرَه، دَفْتَر يَوْمِيّات

deníkčasopis

dagbogtidsskrift

Tagebuch Zeitschrift Journal Logbuch

ημερολόγιο

revista boletín diario periódico

diaarierikoisaikakauslehtilokilokikirjapäiväkirja

journal revue

dagbóktímarit

rivista diario giornale giornale di bordo periodico

žurnalasžurnalistasžurnalistikažurnalistinis

dienasgrāmatažurnāls

logg tidsskrift

дневник журнал судовой журнал цапфа шпиндель

dnevnikrevija

dergi günlükhatıra defterimecmua

学报定期刊物日志杂志

journal

[ˈdʒɜːnl]

A. N

1. (= diary) → diario m (Naut) → diario m de navegación

2. (= periodical) → periódico m; (= magazine) → revista f

3. (Mech) → gorrón m, muñón m

B. CPD journal bearing N → cojinete m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

journal

[ˈdʒɜː^rn^əl] n

(= magazine) → revue f

(= diary) → journal m
to keep a journal → tenir un journal
to keep a journal of sth (= record) → tenir un journal de qch

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

journal

(= magazine) → Zeitschrift f; (= newspaper) → Zeitung f

(= diary) → Tagebuch nt; to keep a journal → Tagebuch führen

(Naut) → Logbuch nt, → Bordbuch nt; (Comm) → Journal nt; (= daybook) → Tagebuch nt; (Jur) → Gerichtsakten pl

(of fax machine) → Sendebericht m; (Mech) → Achszapfen m, → Achsschenkel m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

journal

[ˈdʒɜːnl] n (periodical) → rivista (specializzata); (newspaper) → giornale m; (diary) → diario (Book-keeping) → brogliaccio

journal

(ˈdʒəːnl) noun

1. a magazine or other regularly published paper (eg of a society). the British Medical Journal.

2. a diary giving an account of each day's activities.

ˈjournalism noun

the business of running, or writing for, newspapers or magazines.

ˈjournalist noun

a writer for a newspaper, magazine etc.

ˌjournaˈlistic adjective

(of style of writing) like that of a journalist, colourful and racy.

journal

n. diario.

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Amiel's Journal. The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel.

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I won't give you an account of all my wanderings, though I have been most indefatigable; for I am keeping, as I told you before, a most EXHAUSTIVE journal, which I will allow you the PRIVILEGE of reading on my return to Bangor.

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But Herr Petermann, in his Mittheilungen, published at Gotha, reduced the Geneva journal to the most absolute silence.

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If you ask a citizen of Munich which is the best Munich daily journal, he will always tell you that there is only one good Munich daily, and that it is published in Augsburg, forty or fifty miles away.

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"I see what you think of me," said he gravely -- "I shall make but a poor figure in your journal tomorrow."

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While Edgar Poe was editor of the "Broadway journal," some lines "To Isadore" appeared therein, and, like several of his known pieces, bore no signature.

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My father offered it to the editor of the paper I worked on, and I first knew, with mingled shame and pride, of what he had done when I saw it in the journal. In the tumult of my emotions I promised myself that if I got through this experience safely I would never suffer anything else of mine to be published; but it was not long before I offered the editor a poem myself.

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Among the other pursuits of Richard, he had a passion to keep a register of all passing events; and his diary, which was written in the manner of a journal, or log.

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My household work is done, so I shall take his foreign journal, and lock myself up in my room and read it.

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These consisted of a few leaves pinned together, and headed (in a woman's handwriting) "My Journal at Rome." A brief examination showed that the journal had been written by Miss Roseberry, and that it was mainly devoted to a record of the last days of her father's life.

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[10] See the German Translation of this Journal; and for the other facts, Mr.

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But what I have intended, what I have resolved upon (and this is the confidence I seek to place in you) is, on my return to England, in my own person, in my own journal, to bear, for the behoof of my countrymen, such testimony to the gigantic changes in this country as I have hinted at to-night.