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# journal

«journal» in Mova's school dictionary: **a book in which you write about what happens each day…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a journal, journals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A journal is a book in which you write about what happens each day, your thoughts and feelings; a kind of diary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journal/#m1)

2) A journal is a serious magazine about a subject, like science or medicine, where experts publish their work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journal/#m2)

3) A journal is a newspaper (used in some newspaper names, like «The Wall Street Journal»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journal/#m3)

4) (money) In bookkeeping, a journal is a record of money in and out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journal/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school pupils keep reading journals, science journals and nature journals to record observations. In science, «published in a journal» means checked by other experts (peer-reviewed). In stories, a hidden journal reveals secrets. Phrases: «keep a journal», «scientific journal», «journal entry».

### examples

- I write in my journal every night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journal/#x1)
- Keep a science journal of how your bean plant grows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journal/#x2)
- Anne Frank's diary is a famous journal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journal/#x3)
- The discovery was published in a science journal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journal/#x4)
- Dad reads a medical journal for his job. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journal/#x5)
- Today's journal entry is about the school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journal/#x6)

### note

Countable: a journal, journals. Related: journalist (a person who writes news), journalism, journey (all from the French «jour», day). Journal vs diary: very similar; a diary may also be a calendar of appointments, while a journal is more for thoughts and records.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «journal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/journal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.