Hypertext Webster Gateway: "journal"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Journal \Jour"nal\, a. [F., fr. L. diurnalis diurnal, fr.
diurnus belonging to the day, fr. dies day. See {Diurnal}.]
Daily; diurnal. [Obs.]
Whiles from their journal labors they did rest.
--Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Journal \Jour"nal\, n. [F. journal. See {Journal}, a.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
journal
n 1: a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and
observations [syn: {diary}]
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}]
4: a record book as a physical object
5: the part of the axle contained by a bearing
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