Newspaper vs. Journal — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Newspaper and Journal
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Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns.
Journal
A personal record of occurrences, experiences, and reflections kept on a regular basis; a diary.
Newspaper
A publication, usually issued daily or weekly, containing current news, editorials, feature articles, and usually advertising.
Journal
An official record of daily proceedings, as of a legislative body.
Newspaper
See newsprint.
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Journal
(Nautical) A ship's log.
Newspaper
(countable) A publication, usually published daily or weekly and usually printed on cheap, low-quality paper, containing news and other articles.
Journal
A daybook.
Newspaper
A quantity of or one of the types of paper on which newspapers are printed.
Journal
A book of original entry in a double-entry system, listing all transactions and indicating the accounts to which they belong.
Newspaper
(transitive) To cover with newspaper.
She newspapered one end of the room before painting the bookcase.
Journal
A newspaper.
Newspaper
To engage in the business of journalism
His newspapered his way through the South on the sports beat, avoiding dry towns.
Journal
A periodical presenting articles on a particular subject
A medical journal.
Newspaper
To harass somebody through newspaper articles.
He got newspapered out of public life.
Journal
The part of a machine shaft or axle supported by a bearing.
Newspaper
A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements, etc.
Journal
To write one's observations or thoughts in a journal
Spent all day journaling about the trip.
Newspaper
A daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements;
He read his newspaper at breakfast
Journal
A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
Newspaper
A business firm that publishes newspapers;
Murdoch owns many newspapers
Journal
A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject.
The university's biology department subscribes to half a dozen academic journals.
Newspaper
A newspaper as a physical object;
When it began to rain he covered his head with a newspaper
Journal
(accounting) A chronological record of payments or receipts.
Newspaper
Cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers;
They used bales of newspaper every day
Journal
(accounting) A general journal.
Journal
(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.
Journal
(engineering) The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings.
Journal
To archive or record something.
Journal
To scrapbook.
Journal
To insert (a shaft, etc.) in a journal bearing.
Journal
(obsolete) Daily.
Journal
Daily; diurnal.
Whiles from their journal labors they did rest.
Journal
A diary; an account of daily transactions and events.
Journal
That which has occurred in a day; a day's work or travel; a day's journey.
Journal
That portion of a rotating piece, as a shaft, axle, spindle, etc., which turns in a bearing or box. See Illust. of Axle box.
Journal
A daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations
Journal
A periodical dedicated to a particular subject;
He reads the medical journals
Journal
A ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred
Journal
A record book as a physical object
Journal
The part of the axle contained by a bearing
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