journal

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A personal record of occurrences, experiences, and reflections kept on a regular basis; a diary.
2. n. An official record of daily proceedings, as of a legislative body.
3. n. Nautical A ship's log.
4. n. Accounting A daybook.
5. n. Accounting A book of original entry in a double-entry system, listing all transactions and indicating the accounts to which they belong.
6. n. A newspaper.
7. n. A periodical presenting articles on a particular subject: a medical journal.
8. n. The part of a machine shaft or axle supported by a bearing.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Daily; quotidian; diurnal.
2. n. A diary or daily record; an account of daily transactions or events; a book or paper containing such an account or made for entering it; any record of a series of transactions.
3. n. Specifically— In bookkeeping by double entry: A book in which every particular article or charge is distinctly entered from the day-book or blotter under each day's date, as a “debit” to a person and “credit” to a thing, or vice versa, and thus systematized or classed to facilitate posting to the ledger.
4. n. A day-book.
5. n. Nautical, a daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, the weather, and other circumstances
6. n. A newspaper or other periodical published daily; hence, any publication issued at successive periods containing reports or records of current events of any kind.
7. n. In mining, a record of the strata passed through in sinking.
8. n. A day's work or travel; a journey.
9. n. In machinery, that part of a shaft or axle which rests in the bearings. See first cut under axle-box.
10. pret. and pp. journaled or journalled, ppr. journaling or journalling.
11. In machinery, to insert, as a shaft, in a journal-bearing.
12. To enter in a journal.

Wiktionary

1. adj. obsolete Daily.
2. n. A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
3. n. A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
4. n. engineering The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings.
5. n. computing 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. v. To archive or record something.
7. v. To scrapbook.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. obsolete Daily; diurnal.
2. n. A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.
3. n. (Bookkeeping) A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions.
4. n. (Naut.) A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc.
5. n. (Legislature) The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk.
6. n. A newspaper published daily a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc.; a periodical; a magazine.
7. n. Obs. & R. That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey.
8. n. (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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a periodical dedicated to a particular subject
2. n. the part of the axle contained by a bearing
3. n. a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred
4. n. a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations
5. n. a record book as a physical object