04 September 2010
An accounting record where all business transactions are originally entered. A journal details which transactions occurred and what accounts were affected. Journal entries are usually recorded in chronological order, and using the double-entry method of bookkeeping.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box.