DIARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diary mean? 

• DIARY (noun)
  The noun DIARY has 2 senses:

1. a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations

2. a personal journal (as a physical object)

  Familiarity information: DIARY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

diary; journal

Hypernyms ("diary" is a kind of...):

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diary"):

blog; web log (a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies)

Derivation:

diarist (someone who keeps a diary or journal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A personal journal (as a physical object)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("diary" is a kind of...):

journal (a record book as a physical object)

Derivation:

diarist (someone who keeps a diary or journal)

 Context examples 

So here I am finishing my entry in my phonograph diary whilst I await her.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I think myself that it is a page from some private diary.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know it well; therefore I proceed almost as freely as if I were writing my thoughts in a diary.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

So would my diary, in which, from day to day, I had entered both my feelings towards him and the view which each of us had taken.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Report coming directly from patients or subjects through interviews or self-completed questionnaires or other data capture tools such as diaries about their life, health condition(s) and treatment.

(Patient Self-Report, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

EXAMPLE(S): prohibited medication, missed dose of study medication, missed recording data in diary, late visit (for minor deviations).

(Performed Protocol Deviation Subcategory Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Single ladies must live, and their passbooks are compressed diaries.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In this worn face, Charles, and in this grizzled hair, you may read the diary of my most miserable existence.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Recording multiple observation results in a diary.

(Defined Subject Activity Group, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The drugs were administered by the families and recorded in a diary.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)