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Daily vs Journal - What's the difference?

daily | journal |

As adjectives the difference between daily and journal

is that daily is quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day while journal is daily.

As nouns the difference between daily and journal

is that daily is a newspaper that is published every day while journal is a diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.

As an adverb daily

is quotidianly, every day.

As a verb journal is

to archive or record something.

daily

English

Adjective

(-)
  • quotidian, that occurs every day, or at least every working day
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 11
    • Give us this day our daily bread.
  • * Macaulay
    • Bunyan has told us that in New England his dream was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
  • * Milton
    • Man hath his daily work of body or mind / Appointed, which declares his dignity, / And the regard of Heaven on all his ways.
  • diurnal, by daylight, as opposed to nightly

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • quotidianly, every day
  • diurnally, by daylight

    • Noun

    (dailies)
  • a newspaper that is published every day.
  • (UK) a cleaner who comes in daily.
  • (UK, slang) a daily disposable.
  • (video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.

    • Synonyms

    * daily help * daily maid (woman only)

    See also

    * quotidian * everyday

    Anagrams

    * English frequency adverbs

    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.
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