Journal vs Spiral - What's the difference?
journal | spiral |
(obsolete) Daily.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
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.
(geometry) A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
(informal) A helix.
A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
Helical, like a spiral
To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
(figuratively) To increase continually.
As nouns the difference between journal and spiral
is that journal is while spiral is spiral.journal
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Alternative forms
* journall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- his faint steedes watred in Ocean deepe, / Whiles from their iournall labours they did rest [...].
Noun
(en noun)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 journalspiral
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(wikipedia spiral)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* death spiral * downward spiral * graveyard spiral * spiral staircase * upward spiralAdjective
(-)Verb
- The falling leaves spiralled down from the tree.
- Her debts were spiralling out of control.
