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Journal vs Logbook - What's the difference?

journal | logbook |

As nouns the difference between journal and logbook

is that journal is a diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook while logbook is a book in which measurements from the ship's log are recorded, along with other salient details of the voyage.

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.
  • ----

    logbook

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A book in which measurements from the ship's log are recorded, along with other salient details of the voyage.
  • (by extension) A book in which events are recorded; a journal, especially of travel.
  • (UK) A record of the ownership, and licensing of a motor car