jour·nal /ˈʤɝnḷ/
  日誌;議事錄;日報;日記帳
  journal
  期刊; 日誌
  journal
  日誌
  Jour·nal a.  Daily; diurnal. [Obs.]
     Whiles from their journal labors they did rest.   --Spenser.
  Jour·nal, n.
  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.
  2. That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey. [Obs. & R.]
  3. Mach. That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box.
  Journal box, or Journal bearing Mach. the carrier of a journal; the box in which the journal of a shaft, axle, or pin turns.
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  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