journal
/ˈd͡ʒɝnəl/ noun B1- A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
- A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject. · The university's biology department subscribes to half a dozen academic journals.
- A chronological record of payments or receipts.
- A general journal.
- 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.
Plural journals
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“But how came that first note to be inserted in your journal?
He hastily tore off the cover, opened the journal with nervous precipitation, passed contemptuously over the Paris jottings, and arriving at the miscellaneous intelligence, stopped with a malicious smile, at a paragraph headed
“There appeared in his journal last night—but wait, and read for yourself.” And Albert handed over the paper to the count, who read as follows:
I am going to Beauchamp, in whose journal this paragraph appears, and I shall insist on his retracting the assertion before two witnesses.”
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