journaljour‧nal /ˈdʒɜːnl $ -ɜːr-/ ●●○ AWL noun [countable] 
the British Medical Journal2a written record that you make of the things that happen to you each day SYN diary: He decided to keep a journal.
WORD ORIGINjournal
Origin:
1300-1400 French journal ‘daily’, from Latin diurnalis, from diurnus ‘of the day’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Her book draws on letters, diaries, journals and historical sources.
- I was given access to his private papers and journals.
- In the 1837 journal, Darwin gives an account of his voyage to South America.
- Jewish life is poignantly described in Wiesel's journal, "The Jews of Silence".
- The New England Journal of Medicine
- Every few years the industry begins a campaign, backed in medical journals, for release from its shackles.
- How many journals does it have?
- Many of my journal entries during this time are brief.
- Mr Ebstein is the lead author of one study of the gene in the January issue of the journal Nature Genetics.
- The contributors to his journal are happy to oblige him.
- The findings, published in the journal Science, also suggest that reducing leptin levels below normal might hold puberty at bay.
- The profession, principally via its house journal, sought to account for the attacks in terms of a conspiracy theory.
THESAURUS
a book in which you write down the things that happen to you each day, and your private thoughts: · I decided to keep a diary of our trip to Toronto.· You shouldn’t read anyone’s private diary.· On February 3rd, he wrote the last entry in his diary.
a diary, especially one written by a famous or important person: · In the 1837 journal, Darwin gives an account of his voyage to South America.· Her book draws on letters, diaries, journals and historical sources.
a written record of the important events and people in your life which you write in order to publish – especially one that is written by a famous or important person such as a politician or a military leader: · A lot of politicians think about writing their memoirs.· The book was titled ‘The Memoirs of a President’.
a diary that someone puts on a website, which is a record of their activities, experiences, and opinions, with the latest information always at the top. On some blogs, readers can leave comments: · I try to keep a regular online blog.· I came across a great post on a blog I read recently.
an official record of events, especially on a journey in a ship or plane: · the ship’s log· The captain had made a few notes in the log book.
Longman Language Activatora book about someone's life a book about someone's life, written by another person: · She's the author of three acclaimed biographies.· This is a competent and well-researched biography.biography of: · Boswell's biography of Dr Johnsonauthorized biography (=approved by the person being written about): · 'Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now' is an authorized biography of the former Beatle by Barry Miles.unauthorized biography (=not approved by the person written about): · He has slammed an unauthorised biography which he claims contains 'factual errors'.
a book in which someone writes about their own life: · Although she has written three novels, this autobiography is her first published work.somebody's autobiography: · In her autobiography, Doris Lessing writes about her childhood in Zimbabwe.· The incident is recounted in his autobiography.
the story of your own life which you have written yourself, especially about your involvement in important political or military events: somebody's memoirs: · The duke's memoirs will be serialised in The Sunday Times.· Reading Bready's unpublished memoirs, I was struck by her courage and resilience. · 'I felt lost, abandoned,' she wrote in her memoirs.
a book in which you write down the things that happen to you each day, and your private thoughts: · I wouldn't really show anyone my diary, not even you.keep a diary (of something) (=write in a diary each day): · During his illness, David kept a diary, which his family hopes to publish.· I decided to keep a diary of our trip to Toronto.
a diary, especially one written by a famous or important person: · In the 1837 journal, Darwin gives an account of his voyage to South America. · Her book draws on letters, diaries, journals and historical sources.somebody's journal: · I was given access to his private papers and journals.· Jewish life is poignantly described in Wiesel's journal, "The Jews of Silence".
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He decided to keep a journal.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
He decided to keep a journal.· It is not just a question of new ground being broken in the academic journals and literary magazines.· A new academic journal, Fashion Theory, hopes to document and analyze such moments in the evolution of the style industry.· The supreme court's rulings have been controversial, much criticised in academic journals, newspaper leaders and news magazines.· Gallons of ink have been spilled in academic journals and in newspapers over monetary policy.· Society and other academic journals tend to have longer periods between acceptance of their papers and publication than commercial journals.· The Wiconsin Sociologist, which I edited from 1970-1983, is an academic journal and a newsletter.
· The online journal of current clinical trials, a scientific electronic journal, is to be launched this month.· There is little doubt that both software and hardware for reading electronic journals will develop and change in the future.· How do I submit a paper to an electronic journal?· Submitting a paper to an electronic journal could not be easier.· Full instructions are given in the Author Guidelines for each electronic journal.· A pay-per-view service exists for those who do not have direct access to electronic journal articles via subscriptions.· Do I need special software to be able to read electronic journals?· For further details, see Browser Plug-ins How do I print out a paper from an electronic journal?
· Each year more than 450 research papers are published in international journals.· Nature is an international journal covering all the sciences.· In job applications, more weight is given to publications in international journals.
· However, all the leading architectural journals were vociferous in their support for Scott.· The Lancet is known to the public as one of the world's leading medical journals.· These were after all the two leading literary journals.· Both types of forum allow for critical discussion and the research papers discussed are often subsequently published in leading economics journals.· The leading radical journals were closed and Tolstoy instituted much closer supervision of university curricula and student activities.
· She laid aside all the incomprehensible extracts from learned journals and boiled herself an egg.· They appeared to be pages of an off-print of an article in a learned journal.· Off-prints of articles submitted to learned professional journals are often available.
· Though published quarterly, it was very different from the traditional quarterly literary journal.· Several have been published in fine literary journals.· The low circulation and poor distribution of leading literary journals provide clear evidence of the élitist character of the cultured few.· The old literary journal on the kindling pile is as satisfying as the newest ones creating a stir back in the city.· These were after all the two leading literary journals.
· Cambridge and Oxford show both high total productivity and high levels of achieving publication in the major journals.
· Now the former chairman of Merrybent parish council has written about his struggle against heart disease in a medical journal.· Larson cites a medical journal article of 22 years ago that compares a religious experience to a psychotic episode.· She recovered after vitamin C therapy said the medical journal Clinical and Experimental Dermatology.· We found 10 trials by a manual and computerised search of medical journals.· The Lancet is known to the public as one of the world's leading medical journals.· All flow of learned information in terms of scientific, technical and medical journals has ended.· Of course employers can claim unawareness of obscure medical journals.
· February saw the launch of a new bi-monthly journal based in Exeter.· A new academic journal, Fashion Theory, hopes to document and analyze such moments in the evolution of the style industry.· A call for papers for the new journal appears opposite p 721, and we welcome contributions now.· Regular columns cover different aspects of communication, and there is a bibliography which includes new books, journals and communication research.· If journals become too large, they may split, in a process called twigging, to produce new specialist journals.· This index was started by Herbarium staff, who scanned new journals and books coming in to the Library.· In the meantime, one might look for the first appearance of a new journal in March Educational Action Research.
· The misguided enthusiasm spilt over into the most prestigious of journals.· Encouraged by the correlation, Clement submitted his results to the prestigious journal Nature.
· Thus, when I was an urban sociologist I read in sociology and in the professional journals of town planners.· The work was simply an article that was overdue for a professional journal.· One day Harry comes into the office silently holding up an advance copy of one of the professional journals.· Advertised vacancies Go through advertised vacancies in local, regional and national papers and professional journals with a fine-tooth comb!· The anecdotal evidence, reported in professional journals as well as the popular media, is compelling: Music heals.· Check professional journals, local newspaper employment pages and register with good recruitment agencies-check these on the Internet. 10.· In time, books, radio broadcasts, films, and professional journals were added to the list.
· Though published quarterly, it was very different from the traditional quarterly literary journal.· Wayne's account of his ordeal was published in On the Level, the quarterly journal of the multi-storey freaks.
· Even now most scholarly journals pay nothing and you are lucky to get a fee if you talk at a conference.· None of them had published in scholarly journals for years.· Most citations in scholarly journals are to scholarly papers, and citations to popular works are rare.· The bi-monthly scholarly journal, founded in Los Angeles in 1973, suspended publication in 1978 owing to lack of funds.· Battle was joined, in seminars, lectures, committee meetings and the review pages of scholarly journals.
· As articles in scientific journals became more formal, the need for popular writings and lectures increased.· The phenomenon Gross was describing had already been described by researchers in scientific journals for several years.· Many are forgotten, buried in old scientific journals or the archives of individual pharmaceutical companies.· Dorrell did not elaborate but said the experts' findings will be published in scientific journals within four to six weeks.· His fortune is based on the scientific journals of Pergamon Press, which he founded in 1948.· The findings are published in the October issue of the scientific journal Photochemistry and Photobiology.· The scientific journal, printed on paper, has been an integral part of our culture for three hundred years.· Two major collections -- periodicals and scientific journals dating to the 1800s -- were inundated.
· Reviews in specialist journals For academic and special librarians the most useful reviewing sources are the specialized journals.· It is the first established specialist journal in this subject, and 1989 sees its eighty-first year.· If journals become too large, they may split, in a process called twigging, to produce new specialist journals.· One dealer of the author's acquaintance was guided by a specialist journal from the Fleet Street Letter stable.
· In the spring a weekly journal, Bezbozhnik, was set up to conduct a popular anti-religious campaign.· It publishes the weekly journal Science.
NOUN· We can help you find information and obtain materials from elsewhere whether books, journal articles or research reports.· Larson cites a medical journal article of 22 years ago that compares a religious experience to a psychotic episode.· A modest journal article might have produced for the author a significant learning experience.· Still, in their journal articles, these researchers are cautious about telling people to give up dieting.· Some sections of the book reference journal articles exclusively, with no annotations as to what these journal articles contain.· The results of some of these studies are being published as books or journal articles.· To get more detail where the work was later published in a journal article.· Special publications report the output of major research projects and staff are encouraged to publish books and journal articles.
· A combined journal entry added incorrectly.· Many of my journal entries during this time are brief.· Again, the journal entry is more interesting in its original version than in the published account.· At least he had gotten an assigned journal entry out of it.· There was a history of anti-depressant use, a string of journal entries registering acute self-loathing and doubt.· Fiction writers use a similar technique, starting their writing sessions with letters and journal entries.
· Between 1933 and 1938 the journal Nature published some short reports on the biological effects of several industrial chemicals.· Encouraged by the correlation, Clement submitted his results to the prestigious journal Nature.· The scientific journal Nature dispatched a team, which included a magician, to observe the conduct of these experiments.· Mr Ebstein is the lead author of one study of the gene in the January issue of the journal Nature Genetics.· This discovery, which was recently published in the journal Nature, has come out of a fifteen-year research programme.· The study appears in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.· The find was the subject of research published Thursday in the journal Nature.· The finding of the latest gene is reported in the January issue of the journal Nature Genetics.
· For relevant quotations for other occupations, look in trade journals and magazines.· The cost of trade journal subscriptions or memberships in professional societies, for example, are not deductible above-the-line.· Newspaper and trade journals Another alternative is to advertise in newspapers and trade journals.· External sources - government statistics, trade journals, financial press, databases, specialist agencies.· When portraying factory scenes for advertisements in trade journals he would adopt a more straight forward, demotic style.
VERB· The notebooks had at first appeared to be personal journals, but had proved on examination not to be.· Both studies are appearing Friday in the journal Science.· The results are to appear Friday in the journal Cell.
· He decided to keep a journal.· They pay for the ads that keep obesity journals publishing.· There is a story behind each call, and I should keep a journal of the conversations and then the encounters.· From now on, she will keep a journal of her thoughts.· Sheaves of the parchment, on which Wyn kept his journal, fluttered.· I decide to keep a journal when I am in Binghamton.· I have kept a journal, which I hope one day to publish.· While at the work site, students keep journals that their supervisors read and annotate on a weekly basis.
· The low circulation and poor distribution of leading literary journals provide clear evidence of the élitist character of the cultured few.· Several of the leading journals published articles directed against ambitious politicians who thought more of personal gain than of national welfare.
· Each year more than 450 research papers are published in international journals.· None of them had published in scholarly journals for years.· It is to be hoped that the new botanical information acquired will soon be published in more accessible journals.· Dorrell did not elaborate but said the experts' findings will be published in scientific journals within four to six weeks.· The results of some of these studies are being published as books or journal articles.· The findings, published in the journal Science, also suggest that reducing leptin levels below normal might hold puberty at bay.· Special publications report the output of major research projects and staff are encouraged to publish books and journal articles.· It was never published in a reputable journal or subjected to the normal peer review.
· Martin Jackson sat among the people waiting by the arrivals gate and read a journal he'd picked up at the news-stand.· There is little doubt that both software and hardware for reading electronic journals will develop and change in the future.· You wait till you read my later journals.· And his colleagues would have read it in the journal anyway.· Do I need special software to be able to read electronic journals?
· The anecdotal evidence, reported in professional journals as well as the popular media, is compelling: Music heals.· The team's findings were reported in the journal Science.
· He went on writing busily in the journals which employed him, the Edinburgh Review and others.· Fred wrote in his journal on Saturday, March 20, 1869.· I missed my Mbarara veranda, having to write up my journal on a table dragged into the garden at State House.· He continued to write in his journal.· As I wrote my journal I had felt the thickness of the left-hand side grow pleasantly fat - a satisfying fertility.· Some horticultural staff write excellent articles in journals, and some are in constant demand for public lectures.· Eccentrics talk to themselves; some of us address incessant memos to ourselves; many people write in private journals.
WORD FAMILYnounjournaljournalismjournalistjournaleseadjectivejournalistic
1a serious magazine produced for professional people or those with a particular interest: the British Medical Journal2a written record that you make of the things that happen to you each day SYN diary: He decided to keep a journal.