Journal \Jour"nal\, a. [F., fr. L. diurnalis diurnal, fr.
   diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. See Diurnal.]
   Daily; diurnal. [Obs.]
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         Whiles from their journal labors they did rest.
                                                  --Spenser.
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	Journal \Jour"nal\, n. [F. journal. See Journal, a.]
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   1. 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.
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   2. That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel;
      a day's journey. [Obs. & R.] --B. Jonson.
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   3. (Mach.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft,
      axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See
      Illust. of Axle box.
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   Journal box, or Journal bearing (Mach.) the carrier of a
      journal; the box in which the journal of a shaft, axle, or
      pin turns.
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	journal
    n 1: a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences
         and observations [syn: diary, journal]
    2: a periodical dedicated to a particular subject; "he reads the
       medical journals"
    3: a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they
       occurred [syn: daybook, journal]
    4: a record book as a physical object
    5: the part of the axle contained by a bearing

	

	148 Moby Thesaurus words for "journal":
   Clio, Domesday Book, Muse of history, account book,
   accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, address book,
   adventures, adversaria, album, almanac, annal, annals, annual,
   appointment calendar, appointment schedule, autobiography,
   axle box, balance sheet, bank ledger, bankbook, bimonthly,
   biographical sketch, biography, biweekly, blankbook, blotter,
   books, calendar, card ledger, case history, cashbook, catalog,
   catalogue, check sheet, chronicle, chronicles, chronology,
   classified catalog, clock card, commonplace book, confessions,
   cost card, cost ledger, cost sheet, court calendar,
   curriculum vitae, daily, date slip, datebook, daybook,
   desk calendar, diary, diptych, docket, documentation, dossier,
   engagement book, ephemeris, experiences, factory ledger,
   fortnightly, fortunes, gazette, hagiography, hagiology,
   historiography, history, hotbox, inventory, journal box, ledger,
   legend, life, life and letters, life story, list, log, logbook,
   loose-leaf notebook, magazine, martyrology, memo book, memoir,
   memoirs, memorabilia, memorandum book, memorial, memorials,
   memory book, minutes, monthly, necrology, newsletter, newsmagazine,
   newspaper, notebook, obituary, organ, pad, paper, passbook,
   periodical, petty cashbook, photobiography, pictorial,
   pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, profile,
   purchase ledger, quarterly, record, record book, register,
   registry, resume, review, roll, sales journal, sales ledger,
   scrapbook, scratch pad, serial, slick magazine, spiral notebook,
   stock ledger, stores ledger, story, suspense ledger, table, tablet,
   tabloid, theory of history, time book, time chart, time scale,
   time schedule, time sheet, time study, timecard, timetable,
   trade magazine, triptych, weekly, workbook, writing tablet,
   yearbook

	

	journal
journalling

    An on-going record of transactions, such as
   database updates, file system writes, procedure calls or
   message transmissions.  A journal differs from a simple log
   in that the contents of the journal can be used to reconstruct
   the state of the system after a failure by re-applying the
   transactions in the journal to a snapshot of the system
   previous state.

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	JOURNAL, mar. law. The book kept on board of a ship or other vessel, which 
contains an account of the ship's course, with a short history of every 
occurrence during the voyage. Another name for logbook. (q.v.) Chit. Law of 
Nat. 199. 
	

	JOURNAL, common law. A book used among merchants, in which the contents of 
the waste-book are separated every month, and entered on the debtor and 
creditor side, for more convenient posting in the ledger. 
	

	JOURNAL, legislation. An account of the proceedings of a legislative body. 
     2. The Constitution of the United States, art. 1, s. 5, directs that 
"each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings; and from time to time 
publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment, require 
secrecy." Vide 2 Story, Const., 301. 
     3. The constitutions of the several states contain similar provisions. 
     4. The journal of either house is evidence of the action of that house 
upon all matters before it. 7 Cowen, R. 613 Cowp. 17.