annals vs journal

annals

noun
  • Historical records; chronicles; history. 

  • A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. 

  • A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc. 

journal

noun
  • A general journal. 

  • A newspaper or magazine dealing with a particular subject. 

  • 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. 

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

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 annals and journal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )