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3 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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