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Journal vs Autobiography - What's the difference?

journal | autobiography |

As nouns the difference between journal and autobiography

is that journal is a diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook while autobiography is a self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

As an adjective journal

is daily.

As a verb journal

is to archive or record something.

journal

English

Alternative forms

* journall (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Daily.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
    • his faint steedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did rest [...].

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
  • A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
  • (engineering) The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings.
  • (computing) A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.

    • Derived terms

    * e-journal * journalism * journalist * academic journal * item journal * transaction journal * before image journal * after image journal * shadow server journal * mirror server journal * scientific journal * scholarly journal

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To archive or record something.
  • To scrapbook.
    • ----

    autobiography

    English

    (wikipedia autobiography)

    Noun

  • A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.
  • * (Samuel Clemens)
    • Autobiography
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter XI , passage=Here I was interrupted, as I'm so often interrupted when giving my views on the Yeoman's Wedding Song, by her saying that she was dying to hear all about it but would rather wait till she could get it in my autobiography .}}

    Synonyms

    * memoir

    Antonyms

    * heterobiography

    Derived terms

    * autobiographical, autobiographically

    Related terms

    * biography