A daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations.
synonym: diary.
Roget 811:
accounts,
accompts†;
commercial arithmetic,
monetary arithmetic;
statistics
etc.
(numeration)
85;
money matters,
finance,
budget,
bill,
score,
reckoning,
account.
books,
account book,
ledger;
day book,
cash book,
pass book;
journal;
debtor and creditor account,
cash account,
running account;
account current;
balance,
balance sheet;
compte rendu [Fr.],
account settled,
acquit,
assets,
expenditure,
liabilities,
outstanding accounts;
profit and loss account,
profit and loss statement,
receipts.
bookkeeping,
accounting,
double entry bookkeeping,
reckoning.
audit.
[person who keeps accounts]
accountant,
auditor,
actuary,
bookkeeper,
bean counter [Sarc.];
financier
etc.
801;
accounting party;
chartered accountant,
certified accountant;
accounting firm,
auditing firm.
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Roget 594:
description,
account,
statement,
report;
expose
etc.
(disclosure)
529;
specification,
particulars;
state of facts,
summary of facts;
brief
etc.
(abstract)
596;
return
etc.
(record)
551;
catalogue raisonne [Fr.]
etc.
(list)
86;
guidebook
etc.
(information)
527.
delineation
etc.
(representation)
554;
sketch;
monograph;
minute account,
detailed particular account,
circumstantial account,
graphic account;
narration,
recital,
rehearsal,
relation.
historiography†,
chronography†;
historic Muse,
Clio;
history;
biography,
autobiography;
necrology,
obituary.
narrative,
history;
memoir,
memorials;
annals
etc.
(chronicle)
551;
saga;
tradition,
legend,
story,
tale,
historiette†;
personal narrative,
journal,
life,
adventures,
fortunes,
experiences,
confessions;
anecdote,
ana†,
trait.
work of fiction,
novel,
romance,
Minerva press;
fairy tale,
nursery tale;
fable,
parable,
apologue†;
dime novel,
penny dreadful,
shilling shocker relator
etc.
v.;
raconteur,
historian
etc.
(recorder)
553;
biographer,
fabulist†,
novelist.
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Roget 593:
booklet;
writing,
work,
volume,
tome,
opuscule†;
tract,
tractate†;
livret†;
brochure,
libretto,
handbook,
codex,
manual,
pamphlet,
enchiridion†,
circular,
publication;
chap book.
part,
issue,
number livraison [Fr.];
album,
portfolio;
periodical,
serial,
magazine,
ephemeris,
annual,
journal.
paper,
bill,
sheet,
broadsheet†;
leaf,
leaflet;
fly leaf,
page;
quire,
ream.
[subdivisions of a book]
chapter,
section,
head,
article,
paragraph,
passage,
clause;
endpapers,
frontispiece;
cover,
binding.
folio,
quarto,
octavo;
duodecimo†,
sextodecimo†,
octodecimo†.
encyclopedia;
encompilation†.
[collection of books]
library,
bibliotheca†.
press
etc.
(publication)
531.
[complete description]
definitive work,
treatise,
comprehensive treatise
(dissertation)
595.
[person who writes a book]
writer,
author,
litterateur [Fr.],
essayist,
journalism;
pen,
scribbler,
the scribbling race;
literary hack,
Grub-street writer;
writer for the press,
gentleman of the press,
representative of the press;
adjective jerker†,
diaskeaust†,
ghost,
hack writer,
ink slinger;
publicist;
reporter,
penny a liner;
editor,
subeditor†;
playwright
etc.
599;
poet
etc.
597.
bookseller,
publisher;
bibliopole†,
bibliopolist†;
librarian;
bookstore,
bookshop,
bookseller's shop.
knowledge of books,
bibliography;
book learning
etc.
(knowledge)
490.
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Roget 551:
trace,
vestige,
relic,
remains;
scar,
cicatrix;
footstep,
footmark†,
footprint;
pug;
track mark,
wake,
trail,
scent,
piste†.
monument,
hatchment†,
slab,
tablet,
trophy,
achievement;
obelisk,
pillar,
column,
monolith;
memorial;
memento
etc.
(memory)
505;
testimonial,
medal;
commemoration
etc.
(celebration)
883.
record,
note,
minute;
register,
registry;
roll
etc.
(list)
86;
cartulary,
diptych,
Domesday book;
catalogue raisonne [Fr.];
entry,
memorandum,
indorsement†,
inscription,
copy,
duplicate,
docket;
notch
etc.
(mark)
550;
muniment†,
deed
etc.
(security)
771;
document;
deposition,
proces verbal [Fr.];
affidavit;
certificate
etc.
(evidence)
467.
notebook,
memorandum book,
memo book,
pocketbook,
commonplace book;
portfolio;
pigeonholes,
excerpta†,
adversaria [Lat.],
jottings,
dottings†.
gazette,
gazetteer;
newspaper,
daily,
magazine;
almanac,
almanack†;
calendar,
ephemeris,
diary,
log,
journal,
daybook,
ledger;
cashbook†,
petty cashbook†;
professional journal,
scientific literature,
the literature,
primary literature,
secondary literature,
article,
review article.
archive,
scroll,
state paper,
return,
blue book;
statistics
etc.
86;
compte rendu [Fr.];
Acts of,
Transactions of,
Proceedings of;
Hansard's Debates;
chronicle,
annals,
legend;
history,
biography
etc.
594;
Congressional Records.
registration;
registry;
enrollment,
inrollment†;
tabulation;
entry,
booking;
signature
etc.
(identification)
550;
recorder
etc.
553;
journalism.
[analog recording media]
recording,
tape recording,
videotape.
[digital recording media]
compact disk;
floppy disk,
diskette;
hard disk,
Winchester disk;
read-only memory,
ROM;
write once read mostly memory,
WORM.
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Roget 532:
news;
information
etc.
527;
piece of news [Fr.],
budget of news,
budget of information;
intelligence,
tidings.
word,
advice,
aviso [Sp.],
message;
dispatch,
despatch;
telegram,
cable,
marconigram†,
wire,
communication,
errand,
embassy.
report,
rumor,
hearsay,
on dit [Fr.],
flying rumor,
news stirring,
cry,
buzz,
bruit,
fame;
talk,
oui dire [Fr.],
scandal,
eavesdropping;
town tattle,
table talk;
tittle tattle;
canard,
topic of the day,
idea afloat.
bulletin,
fresh news,
stirring news;
glad tidings;
flash,
news just in;
on-the-spot coverage;
live coverage.
old story,
old news,
stale news,
stale story;
chestnut [Slang].
narrator
etc.
(describe)
594;
newsmonger,
scandalmonger;
talebearer,
telltale,
gossip,
tattler.
[study of news reporting]
journalism.
[methods of conveying news]
media,
news media,
the press,
the information industry;
newspaper,
magazine,
tract,
journal,
gazette,
publication
etc.
531;
radio,
television,
ticker
(electronic information transmission).
[organizations producing news reports]
[methods of conveying news]
United Press International,
UPI;
Associated Press,
AP;
The Dow Jones News Service,
DJ;
The New York Times News Service,
NYT;
Reuters [Brit.];
TASS [Rus.];
The Nikkei [Jap.].
[person reporting news as a profession]
newscaster,
newsman,
newswoman,
reporter,
journalist,
correspondent,
foreign correspondent,
special correspondent,
war correspondent,
news team,
news department;
anchorman,
anchorwoman†;
sportscaster;
weatherman.
[officials providing news for an organization]
press secretary,
public relations department,
public relations man.
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Roget 114:
chronometry,
horometry†,
horology;
date,
epoch;
style,
era.
almanac,
calendar,
ephemeris;
register,
registry;
chronicle,
annals,
journal,
diary.
[Instruments for the measurement of time]
chronogram;
clock,
wall clock,
pendulum clock,
grandfather's clock,
cuckoo clock,
alarm clock,
clock radio;
watch,
wristwatch,
pocket watch,
stopwatch,
Swiss watch;
atomic clock,
digital clock,
analog clock,
quartz watch,
water clock;
chronometer,
chronoscope†,
chronograph;
repeater;
timekeeper,
timepiece;
dial,
sundial,
gnomon,
horologe,
pendulum,
hourglass,
clepsydra†;
ghurry†.
chronographer†,
chronologer,
chronologist,
timekeeper;
annalist.
calendar year,
leap year,
Julian calendar,
Gregorian calendar,
Chinese calendar,
Jewish calendar,
perpetual calendar,
Farmer's almanac,
fiscal year.
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Roget 531:
publication;
public announcement
etc.
527;
promulgation,
propagation,
proclamation,
pronunziamento [It];
circulation,
indiction†,
edition;
hue and cry.
publicity,
notoriety,
currency,
flagrancy,
cry,
bruit,
hype;
vox populi;
report
etc.
(news)
532.
the Press,
public press,
newspaper,
journal,
gazette,
daily;
telegraphy;
publisher
etc.
v.;
imprint.
circular,
circular letter;
manifesto,
advertisement,
ad. ,
placard,
bill,
affiche†,
broadside,
poster;
notice
etc.
527.
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Dutch: dagboek
Polish: dziennik