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Journal vs Monthly - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between journal and monthly

is that journal is daily while monthly is occurring every month.

As nouns the difference between journal and monthly

is that journal is a diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook while monthly is a publication that is published once a month.

As a verb journal

is to archive or record something.

As an adverb monthly is

occurring every month.

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.
  • ----

    monthly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Occurring every month.
  • Adverb

    (-)
  • Occurring every month.
  • Noun

    (monthlies)
  • A publication that is published once a month
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 5, Stephanie Clifford, Prominent Magazines Lose Weight, Shedding Nearly Half Their Ads, New York Times citation
  • , passage=Of the 10 monthlies with the worst declines in January, four were Condé Nast magazines: Wired, Architectural Digest, Vogue and Lucky. }}
  • (euphemistic) the menstrual period
  • Synonyms

    * every month, each month, mensually

    Descendants

    * Japanese:

    See also

    * weekly * daily * yearly English frequency adverbs