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A daily chronicle; a diary.

*1992 , Cinthia Gannett, Gender and the journal: diaries and academic discourse :

It was a working document, a sort of lab notebook, and since I have called it a daybook', it has become the most valuable resource I have It takes me about six weeks to fill a ' daybook , and when I'm finished with one I go back through it and pick out anything that I need to work on in the next book.

*2001 , Janice Elsheimer, The Creative Call: An Artist's Response to the Way of the Spirit :

I try to get up thirty minutes before anyone else in my house in order to have my daybook writing time.

*2001 , Vicki Spandel, Ruth G. Nathan, Laura Robb, Daybook of critical reading and writing :

Why is it called a Daybook'? A ' Daybook traditionally is "a book in which daily transactions are recorded," but nowadays it is being used to mean "a journal."

*2003 , Jim Burke, The Teacher's Daybook 2003–2004 :

This is how I use my Daybook': I sit down on Sunday and think about the week ahead. I begin by identifying the major ... When I get home on Monday, I revisit my ' Daybook , consider what happened that day and what I want to happen the rest [...]

(bookkeeping) A ledger; an accounting journal.

*1920 , George Edward Bennett, Accounting: principles and practice :

Since these memoranda were marked down from day to day and the entries followed one another day by day, this first book of accounts was called a "daybook ."

(nautical) A logbook.

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* 1961 , New Scientist (volume 9, number 226, page 679)

Thus once a computer programme has been prepared, vastly different conditions can be inserted and experimented with at the expense of a few hours of computer time.