journal

noun
/ˈd͡ʒɝnəl/US/ˈd͡ʒɜːnəl/UK

Etymology

From Middle English journal, from Anglo-Norman jurnal (“daily”), from Old French jornel (“day”) (whence modern French journal), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”). Doublet of diurnal and the journal from French.

  1. derived from diurnālis
  2. derived from jornel — “day
  3. derived from jurnal — “daily
  4. inherited from journal

Definitions

  1. A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.

    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. + 8 more definitions
    1. A general journal.

    2. A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system

      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.

    3. To archive or record something.

    4. To scrapbook.

    5. Daily.

      • […]his faint ſteedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did reſt[…].
    6. The amount of land that can be worked in a day.

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

    8. 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[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at journal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at journal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at journal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA