journaladj.n.
/ˈdʒəːnl/, U.S. /ˈdʒərn(ə)l/ 1. Performed, happening, or recurring every day; daily, diurnal.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adjective] > everyday or daily
dailyOE
daiwhomlyOE
quotidian?1406
quotidialc1503
journal1590
diary1592
diurnal1594
quotidianary1719
journalaryc1740
day-to-day1861
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. L3 Phœbus..His faint steedes watred in Ocean deepe, Whiles from their iournall labours they did rest.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. ii. 10 So please you, leaue me, Sticke to your Iournall course. View more context for this quotation
1637 J. Bastwick Answer to Exceptions against Letany ii. 3/1 This is their iournall practice.
1658 R. White tr. K. Digby Late Disc. Cure Wounds (1660) 144 To see a hand..mark the journall houres..upon the flat of a quadrant.
2. Of or belonging to one day, restricted to the day; ephemeral. rare.
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the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective]
slidinga900
scrithingOE
henwardOE
swifta1225
short livya1325
passing1340
flittingc1374
shadowy1374
temporalc1384
speedfula1400
transitory?c1400
brittlea1425
unabidingc1430
frail?c1450
indurablec1450
scrithel?c1475
caduke1483
transitorious1492
passanta1500
perishinga1500
caducea1513
fugitive?1518
caducal?1548
quick1548
delible1549
flittering1549
undurable?1555
shadowish1561
fleeting1563
vading1566
flightful1571
wanzing1571
transitive1575
slipping1581
diary1583
unlasting1585
never-lasting1588
flit1590
post-like1594
running1598
short-lived1598
short-winded1598
transient1599
unpermanent1607
flashy1609
of a day1612
passable1613
dureless1614
urgenta1616
waxena1616
decayable1617
horary1620
evanid1626
fugitable1628
short-dated1632
fugacious1635
ephemerala1639
impermanent1653
fungous1655
volatile1655
ephemerousa1660
unimmortal1667
timesome1674
while-being1674
of passage1680
journal1685
ephemeron1714
admovent1727
evanescent1728
meteorous1750
deciduous1763
preterient1786
ephemeridal1795
meteorica1802
meteor1803
ephemerean1804
ephemerid1804
evanescing1805
fleeted1810
fleet1812
unenduring1814
unremaining1817
unimmortalized1839
impersistent1849
flighty1850
uneternal1862
caducous1863
diurnal1866
horarious1866
brisk1879
evasive1881
picaresque1959
1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 72 There are some who dayly differ from themselves. Their understanding is even journal, and much more their will and conduct.
B. n.
I. A book or record.† 1. Christian Church. A service-book containing the day-hours: = diurnal adj. 1. Obsolete.† 2. † b. A record of travel: = itinerary n. 2 (Now only as in B. 4a, B. 4c.)attributive.1792 A. Young Trav. France i. 1 The journal form hath the advantage of carrying with it a greater degree of credibility; and, of course, more weight.† 5. A record of public events or of a series of public transactions, noted down as they occur day by day or at successive dates, without historical discussion. Also in plural. Obsolete.
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society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > breviary or office book > [noun]
houra1250
journal1355
diurnal?a1550
breviary1611
horary1631
office-book1709
horologium1724
brevial1847
horae1875
hour-book1896
1355–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 121 Ad repar. unius Jurnal.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 268/1 Iurnalle, lytylle boke, diurnale.
1454 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 176 Also I wyte to ye said Thomas my jornenall that I bere in my slefe dayly.
1549 Act 3 & 4 Edw. Vi c. 10 §1 All Books called..Couchers, Journals, Ordinals..shall be..abolished.
a. A book containing notices concerning the daily stages of a route and other information for travellers; = itinerary n. (Cf. journey n. 2, 3.)
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > guidebook
itinerarya1552
journal1552
xenagogy1576
itinerario1588
periegesis1591
journey-book1610
wayfaring-book1610
itinerarium1747
guide1759
ambulator1774
guidebook1814
tour-book1824
travel guide1881
tourist guide1924
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Itinerary booke wherein is wrytten the dystaunce from place to place, or wherin thexpenses in iourney be written, or called other wyse a iournall, hodœporicum.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. x. §2 It is written in an auncient Iournall of Burdeaux [margin Itinerarium Burdigal.] that not farre from the Images there is a stone.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > record or account of (a) journey(s > [noun]
itinerary1483
peregrination1548
travels1579
voyage1587
itinerario1588
journal1600
trip1712
itinerarium1747
logbook1791
tour1812
log1825
travel document1892
travelogue1898
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. To Rdr. sig. A iij. It is..nothing else but a large Itinerarium or Iournal of his African voiages.
1700 Lawson (title) Journal of a thousand Miles' Travel among the Indians.
1783 Franklin in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 425 Containing the Journal of the first Aerial Voyage perform'd by Men.
3. A daily record of commercial transactions, entered as they occur, in order to the keeping of accounts: (a) (in a general sense) = daybook n.; (b) (in Book-keeping by Double Entry) a book in which each transaction is entered, in systematic form, with statement of the accounts to which it is to be debited and credited, so as to ensure correct posting in the ledger.These entries are either made at first-hand, or are ‘journalized’ from a waste-book or day-book, in which they have been entered as they occur, without consideration of the special accounts concerned.Thus the waste-book entry, ‘John Smith paid his acct of £100 due 3 months hence less discount at 5%—£98 15s., od. would be entered in the journal as ‘Dr. Cash £98 15s., P. & L. Discount £1 5s.; Cr. John Smith £100’.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > daily
journal1540
daybooka1593
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > other types of account book
journal1540
bankers' book1585
shop book?1594
waste-book1613
cash-book1622
counter-book1622
pay-book1622
copybook1660
audit-booka1680
bankbook1682
transfer-book1694
malt-book1710
pay list1757
petty cash book1827
passbook1833
stock book1835
guard book1839
tommy book1841
bought-book1849
in-clearing book1872
out-clearing book1882
out-book1884
trial-book1890
1540 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 228 The said Cofferer shall yearly within one moneth after the expirement of every yeare, make a stett in his booke called the Journall, for entring any Debentures or other Payments into the same.
1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Bviijv The parcels of the Iournall ought to bee written..in shorter sentence, without superfluous words, than be the parcels in ye Inuentory or Memorial.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Giornale, a iournall or day-booke, such as Shop-keepers vse.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 363 The Iournall he [the Spaniard] calleth Manuall,..and vnto this they keepe a Borrador or Memorial, wherein all things are first entred, and may vpon occasion be blotted, altered, or (by error) be miscast, or not well entred.
1760 S. Johnson Idler 9 Feb. 41 He made two Mistakes in the first Bill,..and dated all his Entries in the Journal in a wrong Month.
1836 Penny Cycl. V. 164/2 He..posts to their credit the several sums which he finds in the journal, carefully stating in his ledger the page in the journal where the entry came from, and in the journal the folio of the ledger where the entry is gone to.
1882 R. Bithell Counting-house Dict. 162 The journal is..one of the principal books, in contradistinction to those which are auxiliary or accessory.
4. A daily record of events or occurrences kept for private or official use.
a. A record of events or matters of personal interest kept by any one for his own use, in which entries are made day by day, or as the events occur. (In quots. 1670, 1782, a single day's record.) Now usually implying something more elaborate than a diary.
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society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun] > for keeping daily memoranda
diary1607
journal1610
agenda1751
datebook1888
society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun] > of an individual
journal1610
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 18 Cæsar hath in his Iournels or Day-books [L. in ephemeridibus] written [etc.].
1670 J. Dryden 1st Pt. Conquest Granada iii. i Good heaven, thy book of fate before me lay, But to tear out the journal of this day.
1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 226 An extract of his diary—no more, A tasteless journal of the day before.
1825 W. Scott Jrnl. 20 Nov. (1939) 1 I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular [Journal].
1855 T. B. Macaulay Jrnl. 10 Jan. I am getting out of the habit of keeping my journal.
b. A register of daily transactions kept by a public body or an association; spec. in plural Journals, the record of the daily proceedings in one or other of the Houses of Parliament, kept by the Clerk of the House.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > state, government, or parliamentary papers > [noun] > records of parliament proceedings
rolls of Parliamenta1325
Journals1702
Hansard1876
society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun] > of a public body or association
journal1775
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 6 Having carefully perused the Journals of both Houses.
1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 22 We find by an account in the Journals of the H. of C. in the following session, that [etc.].
1775 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 127 I hope the Journal of the Session will be published soon.
1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 374 The Speaker's Reprimand was ordered to be entered on the Journals.
c. Nautical. A daily register of the ship's course, the distance traversed, the winds and weather, etc.; a log or logbook.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > logbook
traverse book1600
sea-booka1642
journal1671
logbooka1679
rough logbook1779
log1825
sea-log1853
1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 77 What I could not..collect from many reviews of our Seamens Journals.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Journal..in Navigation, a Book in which a particular Account is kept of the Ship's Way, the Changes of the Wind, and other remarkable Occurrences.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Journal In all sea-journals, the day..terminates at noon.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Journal, synonymous at sea with log-book.
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d. Mining. A record of the strata passed through in drilling a bore-hole or sinking a shaft.
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society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun]
memorial1553
journal1565
daybook1571
diary1581
diurnal1589
journal-book1603
diet-book1624
ephemerisa1631
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Commentarius Diurni commentarij, a iournall, conteynyng thynges for euery daye.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 84 That his Lordship purposed to imploy me in the writing of the History or Journall of Irish affaires.
1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 223 Nor [are] they good Historians, that will tell you the bare journall of Action, without the Series of occasion.
1687 P. Rycaut Contin. Knolles' Hist. Turks II. 95 Memoirs, Giornals, or Historical Observations of their Times.
6. A daily newspaper or other publication; hence, by extension, Any periodical publication containing news or dealing with matters of current interest in any particular sphere. Now often called specifically a public journal.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > [noun]
print1570
journal1743
1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) i. 42 Hence Journals, Medleys, Merc'ries, Magazines.
1785 G. Crabbe News-paper 11 Our weekly journals o'er the land abound.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 107 To the Editors of the Medical and Physical Journal.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 107 To merit insertion in your very useful Journal.
1807 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. (ed. 5) I. 22 The Monthly Review, the venerable mother of our Journals, commenced in 1749.
1865 Sat. Rev. 7 Jan. 15/2 The opinion of this journal has been already more than once expressed on the subject.
1890 Spectator 21 June 875 The personalities and weedy gossip of the Society journals.
II. Other senses.† 7. A day's travel; a journey. Obsolete.† 8. Provision for a journey. (In quot. 1610, the viaticum.) Obsolete.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > a day's journey
a day's gangOE
journeyc1290
dayc1390
day ganga1400
day journey?a1425
dietc1440
journal1617
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 272 The Lord Deputy..in his journall towards Cilkenny Knighted three Irish men.
a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods lxxv. 75 in Wks. (1640) III Now, Sun, looke, And..tell, In all thy age of Journals thou hast tooke, Saw'st thou that Paire, became these Rites so well?
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society > faith > artefacts > consumables > eucharistic elements > bread > [noun] > given to the dying
viaticum1562
voyage provision1562
journal1610
voyage foodc1610
viands1615
1610 R. Hill Pathway to Prayer (ed. 4) 144 If any departed without receiuing this iournall, he was not to be interred in Christian buriall.
9. As much land as can be ploughed in a day. Properly the French word journal (ʒurnal), a land-measure varying in different departments.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > area that can be ploughed in a day
ardagh1483
journal1656
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Journal,..as much land as a Team of Oxen can plough up in one day.
1792 A. Young Trav. France 305 From Calais to Bolougne and Montreuil the good land lets at 24 liv. the journal or arpent of Paris.
1882 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 13 The hiring price of land was from 45 to 50 francs a journal for the best.
10. in Machinery. The part of a shaft or axle which rests on the bearings. (Sometimes erroneously identified with ‘bearing’.)Originally used in a more restricted application: ‘It was proposed by Buchanan, in his Treatise on Millwork, to apply the word gudgeon only to the bearing part at the end of a shaft or axle, which is exposed to bending action alone, and not to twisting action; and journal to an intermediate bearing part through which a twisting moment is or may be exerted; but the custom of using the word “journal” in both senses indiscriminately is so prevalent, that it is impracticable to carry out Buchanan's suggestion’. (Rankine Machinery & Millwork (1869) iii. iii. §460.) [Journal or journey in this sense appears to have arisen in the Scottish workshops. No explanation of its origin has been found.]
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > parts of > journal
gudgeon1400
journal1814
journey1814
axle-journal1849
1814 R. Buchanan Ess. Shafts of Mills 24 (note) Journals, or journeys, are gudgeons subject to torsion.
1823 R. Buchanan Pract. Ess. Mill-work 145 In the case of the small pinion..a much greater stress would be thrown on the journeys (or journals) of the shaft.
1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Journal, in Mechanics, that portion of a shaft which revolves on a support situated between the power applied and the resistance.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 247 The lower chamber of the axle-box, which contains the journal and bearing, is cast in one piece.
1860 C. D. Abel Constr. Machinery 75 The bearing or journal should always be placed as near as possible to the gearing.
1860 C. D. Abel Constr. Machinery 78 For upright shafts the diameter of the bottom journal which has to carry the weight of the shaft and gearing should be determined by the amount of pressure [etc.].
1881 Design & Work 24 Dec. 449/2 Those parts of a shaft which revolve or work in these blocks are known indifferently as necks, bearings, gudgeons, and journals.
1894 Harper's Mag. Apr. 662 The oilers moved here and there,..feeling and examining every journal, rod, and crank.
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C1. General combinations, as journal-wise adv. (adj.).
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1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxx. 123 Having written it [sc. the account] Journal-wise, to amuse and employ her Time.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxviii. 415 At last, I end my Journal-wise Letters, as I may call them.
1839 R. M. M'Cheyne in Mem. (1872) iv. 104 I would have written journalwise.
C2. Special combinations.
a. (In sense B. 4.)
journal-letter n. a letter written as a diary.
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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letter in form of journal
journal-letter1756
1756 J. Hanway Jrnl. Eight Days Journey iii. 9 You see I have begun my Journal Letters, with the solemnity of a dedication.
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. x. 141 I shall keep a journal-letter, and send it once a week.
1906 Daily Chron. 26 Oct. 3/3 Fanny's journal-letters to her dear ‘Daddy Crisp’..are delightful and vivid effusions.
1964 Listener 17 Dec. 983/2 Sir Edward Marsh's long journal-letters..reveal that he was often silly.
b. (In sense B. 3. Book-keeping).
journal-entry n. a formal entry in the journal.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > entry in
brevementc1475
brument?1523
tot1529
score1600
ledger-entry1682
post1718
post entry1798
post1832
journal-entry1836
1836 Penny Cycl. V. 165/2 If..the journal entries already given are properly posted into a ledger.
c. (In sense B. 10.)
journal-brass n. a journal-bearing of brass, also of white metal, etc.
journal-box n. the box or structure enclosing the journal and its bearings.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > parts of > journal > part which encloses or supports
bushel1433
bush1566
plummer block1796
box1825
housing1829
journal-box1864
strap-head1864
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Journal-box.
1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 497 Each journal-box of the friction rollers is held in position by adjusting-screws, by which it can be moved horizontally to or from the center line of the machine.
1888 Scribner's Mag. 183/1 The other end is supported in a journal-box out of view on the other side of the machine.
journal-bearing n. the support of a shaft or axle.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > parts of > support or bearing
headstock1688
brass1731
bearing1734
carriage1788
step1814
bearance1826
footstep1836
cod1839
pivot bearing1851
roller bearing1857
thrust-bearing1858
step-plate1869
thrust-bearer1869
needle bearing1870
journal-bearing1875
wall-bearing1875
plain bearing1893
tumbler-bearing1901
split bearing1902
sleeve bearing1907
thrust-box1918
taper roller bearing1930
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1219/2 The circular system of anti-friction wheels for a journal-bearing is described in Tate's English patent, 1802.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1219/2 A journal-bearing for a vertical shaft with journal box, in one piece.
journal-packing n. any mass of fibrous material saturated with oil or grease, and inserted in a journal-box to lubricate the journal.
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journalv.
/ˈdʒəːnl/, U.S. /ˈdʒərn(ə)l/ Chiefly in past participle journaled
1. transitive. To record in a journal.
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society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > record in journal [verb (transitive)]
journalize1775
journal1803
1803 J. Kenney Society, with Other Poems 107 Oft o'er the journal'd tale she cast her eye.
1892 Idler May 461 His journaled impressions of America.
2. In Machinery. To provide with or fix as a journal: see journal n. 10.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > furnish with a shaft [verb (transitive)] > parts of
bush1566
journal1875
spline1891
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 986/1 The grains..are placed..in a glazing-barrell; this is journaled at the ends, and is caused to rotate for some ten or twelve hours.
1881 Metal World No. 12. 178 Plates in which pivots or small shafts are journaled as in clock work.
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