journalnoun詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒɝnəl/

• 1

  A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.

• 2

  A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.

  • The university's biology department subscribes to half a dozen academic journals.
• 3

  accountingbusinessfinanceA chronological record of payments or receipts.

• 4

  accountingbusinessfinanceA general journal.

• 5

  computingengineeringmathematicsA 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.

journalverb詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒɝnəl/

• 1

  To archive or record something.

• 2

  To scrapbook.

  • Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas.

journaladj詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒɝnəl/

• 1

  obsoleteDaily.

  • […]his faint ſteedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did reſt[…].

journalnoun詞源 2

• 1

  The amount of land that can be worked in a day.

  • Yet the whole extent of cultured country, or all the fields actually cultivated for the ſupport of the inhabitants, will hardly exceed two millions of journaux (or day’s work); above three millions lie entirely waſte; and 850,000 journaux are covered with ſand.
  • The extent of these “Métairies” varies according to the number of the family of the métayer, and the nature of the soil, from 65 journaux (52 statute acres) to 30 journaux (24 acres), for the métayer generally endeavours to cultivate the land he holds, without the help of hired servants or labourers. Average land producing rye ought to be worth to the métayer 7 francs (5 s. 7 d.) per journaux (four-fifths of an acre); that producing wheat 25 francs (1 l.) per acre. The only land farmed is meadow land, situated in the lower part of Médoc, called “Bas Médoc,” and a part of the district of Blaye, which is let, at an average, 80 francs (3 l. 4 s.) the journaux (four-fifths of an acre).[…]The best wheat land gives 10 hectolitres per journaux, that is, three quarters and four-sevenths per four-fifths of an acre. The worst three hectolitres (1 quarter per four-fifths of an acre,) or one journal. Rye gives six hectolitres per journaux (2 quarters per four-fifths of an acre). Oats sometimes 25 hectolitres per journaux (8 quarters and 13-14ths, per four-fifths of an acre).

journalnoun詞源 3

• 1

  engineeringmechanicalmechanical-engineeringthe part of a rotating shaft or axle that rests on the bearing

journalverb詞源 3

• 1

  To insert (a shaft, an axle, etc.) into a journal bearing.

  • In a harvester binder having a hollow shaft journalled at right angles to the main axle and driving motion from the main driving wheel, a spindle journalled within the hollow shaft and having the needle attached to one of its ends[…]
  • The cranks are placed upon posts, rafts, or boats in the stream, and journalled at the water-line, thus keeping one-half of the paddle-surface in action, while the common floating-wheel, or current-wheel, only keeps one[…]