1. journal - Noun
2. journal - Adjective
3. journal - Verb
Daily; diurnal.
A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.
A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions.
A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc.
The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk.
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.
That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey.
That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAfter the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. Jean Cocteau
The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website. Nick Bostrom
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart! Frances Burney
One of the most beautiful papers in physics that I know of is yours in the American Journal of Physics. David Mermin
Keeping a journal implies hope. Erica Jong
A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe. Fritjof Capra