journal

noun

1. A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
2. A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.

   “The university's biology department subscribes to half a dozen academic journals.”

3. A chronological record of payments or receipts.
4. A general journal.
5. A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.
6. The amount of land that can be worked in a day.

   “Yet the whole extent of cultured country, or all the fields actually cultivated for the ſupport of the inhabitants, will hardly exceed two millions of journaux (or day’s work); above three millions lie entirely waſte; and 850,000 journaux are covered with ſand.”

   “‘The surface of the downs, which form the landes of Bordeaux,’ says he, ‘being equal to 337,000 Bordeaux journaux, of 840 square toises, the amount required to fix the whole of these downs would be 8,000,000 livres. Now, a journal (0·33 hectares) of sand planted with pines, gives an annual return of 15 livres, that of 337,000 journaux would therefore be of 5,055,000 livres.”

   “This estate consists of 33 hectares, 12 of which (i. e., about 43 journaux) are devoted to the vine.”

7. the part of a rotating shaft or axle that rests on the bearing

verb

1. (transitive)To archive or record something.
2. (intransitive, transitive)To scrapbook.

   “Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas.”

3. (transitive)To insert (a shaft, an axle, etc.) into a journal bearing.

   “In a harvester binder having a hollow shaft journalled at right angles to the main axle and driving motion from the main driving wheel, a spindle journalled within the hollow shaft and having the needle attached to one of its ends[…]”

   “The cranks are placed upon posts, rafts, or boats in the stream, and journalled at the water-line, thus keeping one-half of the paddle-surface in action, while the common floating-wheel, or current-wheel, only keeps one[…]”

   “The combination of two side frames or plates and outer sides and the intermediate frame, a water trough at the short an intermediate frame or plate, an axle journalled in one of said end of said roller and partly along the rear[…]”

adj

1. (not-comparable, obsolete)Daily.

   “[…]his faint ſteedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did reſt[…].”