journals

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of journal.

   Researchers publish their findings in peer-reviewed journals.

   He filled several journals with notes from his travels.

   Note

   The plural covers several trades at once. It can mean diaries kept by a person or a ship, specialist periodicals, an accountant's chronological records of payments, the change logs a database keeps for recovery, or the parts of a shaft that turn in their bearings. The neighboring words decide which one is meant. Peer-reviewed journals are publications, journals kept on a voyage are diaries, and journals that wear against a bearing belong to machinery.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of journal.

   She journals whenever she feels overwhelmed by work.

   He journals about each trip as soon as he returns home.

   Note

   Two quite different verbs share this form. The everyday one can stand alone or take about (she journals every night, he journals about his trips), or it can take an object, as when a clerk journals each receipt. The workshop verb always takes an object: a mechanic journals a shaft or an axle into its bearing. An object or about after the word marks it as the verb rather than the plural noun.

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