journal vs story

journal

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

story

noun
  • A soap opera. 

  • A lie, fiction. 

  • A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account. 

  • An account of real or fictional events. 

  • A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period. 

verb
  • To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about. 

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