What's the difference between diary and journal?

Diary


Definition:

  • (n.) A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.
  • (a.) lasting for one day; as, a diary fever.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (2) A 99.0% response rate was obtained: 2750 of a possible 2778 diaries were returned.
  • (3) The personal experience of our son's prolonged hospitalization due to osteomyelitis (23 days) was detailed by an ongoing diary.
  • (4) The symptom diary and weekly questionnaire were demonstrated to be valid and responsive to change.
  • (5) It was my first day as a journalist, at the Evening Standard's Londoner's Diary, situated on the floor below.
  • (6) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
  • (7) The addition of the lower dose of nifedipine to atenolol did not significantly alter the weekly consumption of glyceryl trinitrate or the mean number of anginal attacks as assessed by diary cards.
  • (8) And Slimane is nothing if not single-minded: everything bearing his name – from show invitations to photography books to his online diary uses the same Helvetica typeface.
  • (9) And the government doesn't ask 300 million people; it asks only 7,000 families to keep diaries about how much they're spending on a basket of 200 products; the diaries lasted for either two weeks or three months.
  • (10) A ccording to Michael Palin's diary for Saturday 9 January 1982, he rang his friend George Harrison at 9pm.
  • (11) Subjects reported in a diary everything they either ate or drank for seven consecutive days.
  • (12) Symptom diaries were maintained throughout the period of follow-up.
  • (13) The hypothesis that bronchial asthma might follow a biorhythmic pattern was tested in 25 asthmatics with moderate to severe obstruction who completed daily diaries of respiratory symptoms and medication use.
  • (14) The activity of ulcerative colitis and response to therapy was based upon daily stool diaries, sigmoidoscopy, and symptomatic response.
  • (15) And for kids born post-smartphone, they’re the diary that us (comparative) olds kept on paper, the disposable camera that cost us £7.99 and seven days to develop at Boots: an inextricable part of how young people live their lives.
  • (16) Clearance of secretions by antibiotics was also identified by the patients, using a diary card score.
  • (17) The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Daily Sleep Diary (DSD), an instrument developed for monitoring sleep among chronic pain patients.
  • (18) The clinical efficacy of a new slow release preparation of the calcium antagonist gallopamil was assessed in 20 patients by diary cards and treadmill exercise tests.
  • (19) Student diaries and ethnographic data were used to explore how students manage the transition and to document their coping strategies.
  • (20) Sixteen patients recorded anginal symptoms by the diary method over a 6 month trial of randomly sequenced 1 month periods of drug or placebo.

Journal


Definition:

  • (a.) Daily; diurnal.
  • (a.) A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.
  • (a.) A book of accounts, in which is entered a condensed and grouped statement of the daily transactions.
  • (a.) A daily register of the ship's course and distance, the winds, weather, incidents of the voyage, etc.
  • (a.) The record of daily proceedings, kept by the clerk.
  • (a.) A newspaper published daily; by extension, a weekly newspaper or any periodical publication, giving an account of passing events, the proceedings and memoirs of societies, etc.
  • (a.) That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey.
  • (a.) That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (2) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
  • (3) It is the oldest medical journal in South America and the second in antiquity published in Spanish, after the Gaceta de México.
  • (4) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
  • (5) This article, a review of factors controlling vasopressin (AVP) release in pregnancy, extends our contribution to a symposium in this journal published in 1987 (vol X, pp 270-275).
  • (6) The first part of this survey which dealt with equipment for the anterior segment was published in a previous issue of this journal.
  • (7) This review focused on the methods used to identify language impairment in specifically language-impaired subjects participating in 72 research studies that were described in four journals from 1983 to 1988.
  • (8) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
  • (9) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
  • (10) A commercial medical writing company is employed by a drug company to produce papers that can be rolled out in academic journals to build a brand message.
  • (11) A report of the meeting will be published tomorrow in the Pharmaceutical Journal.
  • (12) Khanna wrote about the experience in a case study published Tuesday for the Harvard Journal of Technology Science.
  • (13) We have studied this chapter of our history by analyzing primary documents and articles published at the daily press, political press, and scientific journals of Madrid during 1847 to 1848.
  • (14) In a report published online by the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics , experts from Europe and the US estimated that the quantity of the radioactive isotope caesium-137 released at the height of the crisis was equivalent to 42% of that from Chernobyl.
  • (15) He was angry that the journal had not asked him to review the paper, or at least comment on it, before publication.
  • (16) BB July 8, 2014 Barry Bateman (@barrybateman) #OscarTrial Barry Roux has his head buried in a law journal.
  • (17) Let's stay together Modern love places more value on how an individual can flourish in relationships, according to a 2013 study in the Journal of Communication , and thus Generation Y have a different romantic dynamic than their parents.
  • (18) When war broke out he was there again, scribbling anti-British propaganda for Coughlin's journal.
  • (19) A recent paper by Kail (1988) in this journal appears to contain a significant error in the data analysis.
  • (20) In the three cases examined, the panel said that none "represents subversion of the peer review process nor unreasonable attempts to influence the editorial policy of journals".