account vs journal

account

noun
  • A record of events; a relation or narrative. 

  • A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done. 

  • A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake. 

  • Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system. 

  • A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. 

  • An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. 

  • A bank account. 

  • Profit; advantage. 

  • Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement. 

verb
  • To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. 

  • To consider that. 

  • To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. 

  • To estimate, consider (something to be as described). 

  • To establish the location for someone. 

  • To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). 

  • To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. 

journal

noun
  • A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook. 

  • A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject. 

  • A general journal. 

  • The amount of land that can be worked in a day. 

  • The part of a shaft or axle that rests on bearings. 

  • 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. 

  • A chronological record of payments or receipts. 

verb
  • To scrapbook. 

  • To archive or record something. 

  • To insert (a shaft, an axle, etc) into a journal bearing. 

  • To insert (a shaft, etc.) in a journal bearing. 

How often have the words account and journal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )