DIARY


Meaning of DIARY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

make/keep a video diary

The group decided to make a video diary of the cycling trip.

video diary

The group decided to make a video diary of the cycling trip.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

daily

Patients keep daily diaries of fluid intake and voiding.

We also learned to keep daily diaries detailing all our food and exercise.

Alvin reminded himself in his daily diary .

personal

Between these two positions lies a range of literacy activity, such as personal autobiography, diaries , functional lists etc.

Writing personal journals or diaries may be helpful, for in these writers usually reveal more of themselves than they intend.

The truly personal diary , intended for purely personal perusal, is a rare thing.

■ NOUN

desk

He was equally keen to record what he had seen and always kept a desk diary .

Also, black leather desk diary and telephone book.

entry

Record the experience in a diary entry .

These are not diary entries broken up into bits, nor a re-associated list of the banality of her purse.

The diary entries were tantalizingly brief.

The first diary entries were no doubt recorded on an impulse, in odd hours in his room in the shophouse.

What follows are some of the diary entries I made during our six weeks of production in Savannah.

My diary entries are filled with prosaic happenings.

The defence, Mr Scott went on, would later produce a diary entry that would establish the truth of this statement.

It was clear that in many of these recorded diary entries he had in mind his projected memoirs.

record

The main source of data is maternal diary records of the children's language development.

Coupled with such instructions, electronic, time coded diaries could provide a better method for ensuring the quality of diary records .

When you come to make your list of goals you will be able to spot themes and trends from your diary records .

■ VERB

based

Josselin's reputation is based on the detailed diary which he kept from 5 August 1644 until a few days before his death.

The book is based on a diary which Professor Hull kept on cassette.

fill

Students fill in diaries on a rota basis, with regular cross referencing to check on the accuracy of the entries.

When you fill out your diary , step outside yourself and be as objective as possible.

include

His extensive collection on transgenderism includes his own diaries as far back as junior high school.

Particularly true now as more areas are organising summer courses and events for you to attend and include in your diary .

Accessories include a diary , an appointments schedule, calculator, calendar, to do list and a reminder facility.

keep

While working on the catapult Endill started to keep a diary .

But Ickes says he dared not keep such a diary because it might have been subpoenaed.

Tish intends to do some drawing, but is too intent on keeping a diary .

Patients keep daily diaries of fluid intake and voiding.

He kept his diaries for a record that would be published subsequent to the meetings.

But bear in mind that keeping a sleep diary may cause you to pay more attention to your sleep than you should.

Once your goals have been reached and all your rewards earned, you can stop keeping a detailed diary .

He spun an hour every day and kept a diary .

note

Please note it in your diary - detailed notices will, of course, be sent nearer the time.

publish

He plans to publish diaries about his years in office which will spark a storm in Westminster.

Senior Labor politician Tony Benn has been publishing diary installments for decades, providing a vivid account of Parliament.

read

The local families were patrons and indeed reading the diaries one is struck by the continuity of families into this decade.

No one, but no one, was allowed to read my diary .

use

The notebook had been used as a diary from 1 November 1849 to 15 July 1850.

If used properly, the diary was a mine of information.

I used a diary at this pilot stage.

write

Mr Glennie and crewman Rick Hellriegel wrote diaries during the trip.

Stilwell was to write in his diary after seeing the document.

Class Teacher goes to see Head. Write up diary .

Electrical recording has made this fatally easy to do: much easier than confiding to a written diary .

He wrote in his diary: King most friendly and expressed thanks and confidence.

The rewards for the end of the week should also be written in the diary in the space for Week 1.

That night Endill wrote in his diary .

They were good friends, Bjaaland wrote in his diary .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

keep a record/account/diary etc

A relaxed regime of visiting the lavatory after each main meal and at bedtime is established with the parents keeping a record.

Each day we are to keep a diary.

I must keep records that prove I do all this.

One research team keeps a record of which computers are attached to the network at any time.

Only one in five departments is believed to keep a record of abuse of adults or the elderly.

There was a chart on the wall that gave some measure of this by keeping a record of math and spelling grades.

Tish intends to do some drawing, but is too intent on keeping a diary.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

During his illness, David kept a diary , which his family hopes to publish.

I decided to keep a diary of our trip to Toronto.

I wouldn't really show anyone my diary , not even you.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

According to the diary , it must have been Friday 17 July.

All diary recording is arduous and this was no exception.

Gardeners - put the date in your diary .

He opened his diary which was lying on his desk and checked by name against his written entry.

In a diary in which she writes everything but the truth.

The first diary entries were no doubt recorded on an impulse, in odd hours in his room in the shophouse.

The resulting book falls somewhere between the teen diary / confessional genre and the academic feminist treatise.

There they were - notepad and business diary .

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.