journal

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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

from The Century Dictionary.

• pret. and pp. journaled or journalled, ppr. journaling or journalling.
• In machinery, to insert, as a shaft, in a journal-bearing.
• To enter in a journal.
• Daily; quotidian; diurnal.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun A day-book.
• noun Nautical, a daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, the weather, and other circumstances
• noun A newspaper or other periodical published daily; hence, any publication issued at successive periods containing reports or records of current events of any kind.
• noun In mining, a record of the strata passed through in sinking.
• noun A day's work or travel; a journey.
• noun In machinery, that part of a shaft or axle which rests in the bearings. See first cut under axle-box.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective obsolete Daily; diurnal.
• noun A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.
• noun (Bookkeeping) A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions.
• noun (Naut.) A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc.
• noun (Legislature) The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk.
• noun A newspaper published daily
• noun Obs. & R. That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey.
• noun (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.
• noun (Mach.) the carrier of a journal; the box in which the journal of a shaft, axle, or pin turns.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective obsolete Daily.
• noun A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
• noun A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
• noun engineering The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings.
• noun 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.
• verb To archive or record something.
• verb To scrapbook.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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