word-vault/dist/data/cards/jo/journal.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "journal",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a newspaper or magazine that deals with a particular subject or profession",
            "sensetop": "in a journal",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**a scientific/an academic journal**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the British Medical Journal"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Journal of Experimental Psychology"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a trade/professional/specialist journal"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an **online journal**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **journal article**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The results of the study are expected to be **published in a** peer-reviewed **journal** next month.",
                    "contextForm": "in a journal"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He founded a new literary journal in 1831."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She subscribes to quite a few academic journals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The journal comes out five times a year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The paper was published in an obscure medical journal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the house journal of Southern Gas"
                }
            ],
            "topics": [
                "Literature and writing",
                "TV, radio and news",
                "Scientific research"
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["academic", "learned", "scholarly"],
                "… of journal": ["copy", "edition", "issue"],
                "verb + journal": ["read", "edit", "write for"],
                "journal + verb": ["come out", "be dedicated to", "be devoted to"],
                "journal + noun": ["article", "editorial", "editor"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the journal", "journal of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used in the title of some newspapers",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the Wall Street Journal"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a written record of the things you do, see, etc. every day",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He **kept a journal** of his travels across Asia."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm keeping a food journal for a school science project."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her **journal entry** for that day describes a thunderstorm."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lady Franklin kept a daily journal of the voyage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The captain later published his journals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘I think we're being bugged,' he wrote in his journal."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Queen Victoria's journal is regarded as an important historical record."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["personal", "private", "daily"],
                "verb + journal": ["keep", "write", "read"],
                "journal + noun": ["entry"],
                "preposition": ["in a/​the journal", "journal of"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒɜːnl/",
                "audio": "jo/journal/journal__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈdʒɜːrnl/",
                "audio": "jo/journal/journal__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (originally denoting a book containing the appointed times of daily prayers): from Old French jurnal, from late Latin diurnalis, from Latin diurnus ‘daily’, from dies ‘day’."
}