单词 | daybook |
释义 | daybookn. 1. A book in which a person keeps a daily record of events and experiences; a diary, a journal; †(Nautical) a ship's logbook (obsolete). Now chiefly North American. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > daily record or journal > [noun] memorial1553 journal1565 daybook1571 diary1581 diurnal1589 journal-book1603 diet-book1624 ephemerisa1631 1571 Dict. French & Eng. sig. R. iij Papier iournal, a day booke. 1576 A. Golding tr. Lyfe Shatilion sig. Hvv He suffered no day to passe, wherin he entered not intoo his daybooke [L. in Ephemerides suas] with his owne hand, before he laid him downe too sleepe, the things that seemed woorth the noting in the former ciuill warres. 1597 T. Morton Diet of Soule iii. 115 in 2 Treat. conc. Regeneration Hee noteth as it were in a day booke, euen their least actions both good and euill..and suffereth none of them to go vnrecompenced. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxxiv. 111 The day-booke of houshold affaires. 1654 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms v. 4 The young Lord Harrington, and sundry others, kept Journals, or Day-books, and oft read them over, for an help to Humiliation. 1770 J. Cook Voy. & Trav. Russ. Empire I. xliii. 210 The admiral produced a report, with day-books, such as sea-officers keep, giving an account of his sailings, soundings, the bays and promontories. 1793 R. Gray Poems 86 Sae aff I came, as quick's a trout, By her unseen, And mark'd it a' in my day book, To tell't at e'en. 1843 tr. J. H. D. Zschokke in New Mirror 9 Dec. 149/1 A day-book..helps us to grow in faith in God and Providence. a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xxix. 328 ‘I don't like his looks,’ thought Mr. Gibson to himself at night, as over his daybooks he reviewed the events of the day. 1919 E. Hemingway Let. 3 Mar. (2011) I. 168 In my day book for over a month you could open it up and find ‘Write Jim Gamble’, scribbled. 1994 N. DeMille Spencerville i. 3 Interesting, too, was the sense of unhurried leisure, the absence of any future appointments in his daybook. 2. Bookkeeping. An account book in which the day's commercial transactions, such as sales, purchases, etc., are entered as they occur; (in later use) spec. an account book containing a daily record of a particular class of transactions, as a purchase daybook, sales daybook, etc.In systems of double-entry bookkeeping, often used as a synonym of waste-book n.: see double entry n. at double adj.1 and adv. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > daily journal1540 daybooka1593 a1593 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid Elegies (c1603) i. xii. sig. B4v Among day bookes [L. ephemeridas] and billes they had laine better, In which the Merchant wayles his banquerout debter. 1660 T. Willsford Debitor & Creditor in Scales Commerce & Trade 208 The Diary, or Day-book, ought to be in a large folio. 1682 J. Scarlett Stile of Exchanges 222 In some Fairs they use only to note the Resconter in their Day-books, or Memorial, or Pocket-Books that can be blotted out again. 1703 I. Newton Let. 15 Jan. in Corr. (1967) IV. 397 By ye Day bookes of the late Mint at Norwich..we find that Mr Redhead..was indebted 2497l: 16s: 03d to Mr Blofield. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Book-keeping Journal-Book, or Day-book, wherein the Affairs of each Day are enter'd orderly down, as they happen, from the Wast-book. 1779 R. Hamilton Introd. Merchandize II. v. iv. 262 A list of the debts owing, when the books are opened, is prefixed to the day-book. 1826 A. Lister Diary 9 July in No Priest but Love (1992) 181 He explained the nature of account by a treble entry—day book, cash book, ledger. 1848 N. Amer. & U.S. Gaz. 12 Dec. We have just manufactured a fresh assortment of Ledgers, Sales Day Books, &c. 1907 G. A. Mitchell Single Cost Accts. vi. 139 Goods returned will pass through the Returns Day Book, and this total will also be posted twice. 1994 Accountancy Sept. 55/2 (advt.) Comprehensive reporting includes daybooks, unallocated cash report, statements and numerous customer and sales analysis reports. 1996 Which? Guide to starting your own Business (new ed.) vi. 99 You will need two further books, a sales day book for recording your sales invoices as they are sent out, and a purchases day book in which are recorded your purchases of goods and services. 3. A book intended for daily consultation or reference. Now rare. ΚΠ 1595 T. I. World of Wonders sig. Dv This booke..is written as a memoriall or day-booke for all and euerie of vs dayly and hourely to looke into for the better and speedier amendment of our sinfull liues. 1615 R. Bruch (title) Gerhard's Soule's Watch; or a Day-booke for the devout Soule, consisting of one and fiftie Heavenly Meditations. 1653 Diarium Sive Calendarium (title page) A day book: or, A new almanack for the year of the worlds redemption, 1653. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 10. ⁋3 I see a Sentence of Latin in my Brother's Day-Book of Wit. 1896 W. Rede (title) Striving for the mastery: a daybook for Lent. 1902 M. L. Burge (title) Perennial day-book of promise & comfort. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1571 |
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