Journal

[jur-nl] /ˈdʒɜr nl/

noun
1.
a daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations:
She kept a journal during her European trip.
2.
a newspaper, especially a daily one.
3.
a periodical or magazine, especially one published for a special group, learned society, or profession: the October issue of The English Journal.
4.
a record, usually daily, of the proceedings and transactions of a legislative body, an organization, etc.
5.
Bookkeeping.

6.
Nautical. a log or logbook.
7.
Machinery. the portion of a shaft or axle contained by a plain bearing.
/ˈdʒɜːnəl/
noun
1.
a newspaper or periodical
2.
a book in which a daily record of happenings, etc, is kept
3.
an official record of the proceedings of a legislative body
4.
(accounting)

5.
the part of a shaft or axle in contact with or enclosed by a bearing
6.
a plain cylindrical bearing to support a shaft or axle
n.

mid-14c., “book of church services,” from Anglo-French jurnal “a day,” from Old French jornel, “day, time; day’s work,” noun use of adjective meaning “daily,” from Late Latin diurnalis “daily” (see diurnal). Meaning “book for inventories and daily accounts” is late 15c.; that of “personal diary” is c.1600, from a sense found in French. Meaning “daily publication” is from 1728.

operating system
An on-going record of transactions, such as database updates, file system writes, procedure calls or message transmissions. A journal differs from a simple log in that the contents of the journal can be used to reconstruct the state of the system after a failure by re-applying the transactions in the journal to a snapshot of the system previous state.
(2008-05-29)