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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
diesel
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a petrol/diesel engine
▪ The van has a 2.5 litre diesel engine.
diesel fuel
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
▪ However, at least a new generation of diesel unit was in mind.
▪ The only orders for new diesel locomotives placed during the 1970s and 1980s, were for locomotives designed specifically to haul freight.
▪ For example, the new Citroen Xantia diesel costs exactly the same as the 1.6-litre petrol version.
▪ Except for the new diesel engines, the trains date back to 1954.
■ NOUN
car
▪ That's like putting kerosene in a diesel car, says Mr Hamilton.
▪ It wants a reduction in diesel fuel duty plus a lower level of road tax on diesel cars.
▪ The tradition for diesel cars is far better established on the Continent and that is where the best buys come from.
engine
▪ Diesel sales continued to rise with more than 41 % of all Mercedes-Benz cars now equipped with diesel engines.
▪ Later on, over time, diesel engines lessened this possibility.
▪ Toyota is to build diesel engines in Britain.
▪ I would love to test the same rig with a turbocharged diesel engine.
▪ These will be electronically controlled, a technical task far harder on a diesel engine than on its petrol counterpart.
▪ In a traditional transportation business, diesel engines or gasoline-powered motors move the trucks along the roadways.
▪ The huge Dagenham site is to become Ford's centre for diesel engine manufacturing and design.
▪ The weary town crew, unable to start the frozen diesel engines of their snowplows, were the only other customers.
fuel
▪ At least that was the case in Britain, where the gap between petrol and diesel fuel prices has always been small.
▪ The state mandated cleaner-burning diesel fuel way back in October 1993.
▪ The sharp rise last spring led to the average price of diesel fuel rising by 14 % between 1999 and 2000.
▪ In fact, earlier this year, retail diesel fuel prices were lower in California on average than in Nevada.
▪ It wants a reduction in diesel fuel duty plus a lower level of road tax on diesel cars.
▪ He said higher diesel fuel cost the company about 10 per share in the first quarter.
▪ The car then went up in flames from the diesel fuel that spilled from the Amtrak engine.
▪ Gasoline, aviation fuel, heating oil, and diesel fuel tank farms are always located near centers of demand.
locomotive
▪ The cab control car of a commuter train being pushed from the rear collided head-on with an Amtrak diesel locomotive.
▪ Adtranz manufactures electric and diesel locomotives, high-speed trains, streetcars and underground trains, and signal and traffic-control systems.
▪ The only orders for new diesel locomotives placed during the 1970s and 1980s, were for locomotives designed specifically to haul freight.
truck
▪ Huge, ancient diesel trucks lumbered through the crowd between tractors and horse-drawn carts.
▪ Because many diesel trucks travel across state lines and are registered outside Arizona, they are harder to regulate than gasoline-powered vehicles.
turbo
▪ The rumoured turbo diesel is still some months away.
▪ I have a 1988 turbo diesel 90 County.
▪ I purchased a 90 turbo diesel 2.5 in October 1989.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a diesel truck
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Diesel sales continued to rise with more than 41 % of all Mercedes-Benz cars now equipped with diesel engines.
▪ And 86 to 90 percent comes from vehicle exhaust, evenly divided between diesel and gasoline engines.
▪ Except for the new diesel engines, the trains date back to 1954.
▪ I would love to test the same rig with a turbocharged diesel engine.
▪ It will have roughly the performance of a diesel.
▪ Off on the freeway I hear a diesel coming, shifting down as the hill steepens.
▪ The cab control car of a commuter train being pushed from the rear collided head-on with an Amtrak diesel locomotive.
▪ Yet diesel gets off easily when it comes to pollution controls.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diesel

Diesel \Diesel\, Diesel engine \Die"sel en`gine\ or Diesel motor \Die"sel mo`tor\ (d[=e]"zel). [After Dr. Rudolf Diesel, of Munich, the inventor.] A type of internal-combustion engine in which the air drawn in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the heat generated ignites the fuel (usually a heavy oil), the fuel being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under pressure. The Diesel engine has a very high thermal efficiency.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
diesel

1894, named for Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913), German mechanical engineer who designed this type of engine.

Wiktionary
diesel

n. 1 A fuel derived from petroleum (or other oils) but heavier than gasoline/petrol. Used to power diesel engines which burn this fuel using the heat produced when air is compressed 2 A vehicle powered by a diesel engine 3 (context UK slang English) snakebite and black vb. 1 To ignite a substance by using the heat generated by compression 2 (context automotive English) For a spark-ignition internal combustion engine to continue running after the electrical current to the spark plugs has been turned off. This occurs when there's enough heat in the combustion chamber to ignite the air/fuel without a spark, the same way heat and pressure cause ignition in a diesel engine.

WordNet
Wikipedia
Diesel

Diesel may refer to:

Diesel (brand)

Diesel S.p.A. is an Italian retail clothing company, located in Breganze, Italy. It sells denim, and other clothing and accessories. The clothing line has two different brands: Diesel and Diesel Black Gold. There's also a line for children, called Diesel Kid. The company is known for its surreal advertising campaigns. Since 2013 the creative director has been Nicola Formichetti.

Diesel (band)

Diesel is a Dutch pop/rock group that became one of the few Dutch acts to chart in the U.S. when their song "Sausalito Summernight" entered the U.S. Top 40 in 1981.

Diesel (musician)

Mark Denis Lizotte, (born 31 May 1966, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States) is an American-born Australian musician, who has released material as leader of Johnny Diesel & the Injectors, under his birth name, or by the pseudonym Diesel. Two of his albums reached No. 1 on the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Albums Charts, Hepfidelity in 1992 and The Lobbyist in 1993.

Since 1987, Diesel has played on several albums by well-known Australian rock singer and brother-in-law 1, Jimmy Barnes. Although better known as a singer-songwriter and guitarist, Diesel is also competent on bass guitar, drums, percussion and keyboards; and has also produced an album by Richard Clapton and one by Vika and Linda Bull. He has won six ARIA Music Awards with three for 'Best Male Artist' in 1993, 1994 and 1995.

Diesel (Thomas and Friends)

"Devious" Diesel is a fictional diesel shunting locomotive, originating from " The Other Railway". The character appeared in The Railway Series books, Duck and the Diesel Engine and Thomas and the Evil Diesel, and also appears as the primary antagonist in the television series, Thomas & Friends.

Diesel (game engine)

Diesel is a game engine developed and used by GRIN. The engine was originally developed for their game Ballistics and has been used, albeit with modifications, in a number of other games since then. The first installment of the engine was developed in close collaboration with Nvidia, aimed to showcase the capabilities of their latest graphics chip at the time, the GeForce 3. The engine is currently in use by Overkill Software, formerly the owners of the now defunct developer GRIN. Overkill's game, Payday: The Heist, uses a modified version of this engine. Payday 2 uses the second generation Diesel engine 2.0.

Diesel (film)

Diesel is a 1942 German biographical film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner and Paul Wegener. It portrays the life of Rudolf Diesel the German inventor of the diesel engine. It was one of a series of prestigious biopics made in Nazi Germany portraying genius inventors or artists struggling against the societies in which they live. The film was based on a biography by Eugen Diesel, one of Diesel's children. The film's sets were designed by art director Erich Kettelhut.

Diesel (dog)

Diesel was a seven-year-old Belgian Malinois RAID assault dog employed by the French police.

Usage examples of "diesel".

He sniffed the air, the scent a mixture of diesel oil and diesel exhaust from the emergency generator, ozone from the electrical equipment, cooking oil, lubricating oils, and amines from the atmospheric control equipment.

The electrical smell of the ship came into his nostrils, a brew of cooking oil, ozone, diesel fuel, cleaning solution, and amines, the perfume of it filling him with nostalgia.

There had been no noise loud enough to hear above the general traffic, the diesel buses and taxis.

The Discovery leaked black diesel smoke from its rusty anus and the inappropriate pale blue clunky interior designed by Sir Terence Conran was filthy and falling to bits, but Cicely felt it would do the job.

That was when Fuchs had worked as a diesel fitter for a boat company on the Elbe.

If the environment should happen to cross your mind while you are trying to decide between leaded, unleaded, diesel, or gasohol, severe legal penalties would ensue.

Like the jalopy, the bright new sedan was equipped with a powerful Diesel motor which Jeffrey had designed and installed himself.

The cook-boy was scattering diesel from an old jerrican on to a pile of branches and in an instant a fire blazed at the edge of the clearing.

And the wind had also whipped all the urban smutch out to sea, all the stink of diesel, gasoline, chemicals and garbage fires, leaving a sky so blue it was like the sky of childhood.

The hull was angling downward in the darkness, he could feel it, and he could almost see it in the light of a secondary explosion from aft--the diesel fuel oil tank exploding.

Daniel Addison dozed lightly in a window seat near the back of the tour bus, his senses purposefully concentrated on the soft whine of the diesel and hum of the tires as the coach moved north along the Autostrada toward Assisi.

Turning off the huge diesel without letting it idle in neutral for several minutes was a good way to damage it, and damaging the bulldozer was one of the last things he wanted to do.

The Molt was turned half away from them, hunching forward, hearing the diesel engine of the nearest APC but unable to see even that.

Class A diesel pusher with dual 6V Coach batteries, ducted AC and heat, 100-gallon gas tank, LP and water, a 4KV generator and a full monocoque chassis.

In the stillness that replaced the howl of shells, small arms sizzled audibly among the grumble of diesels as soldiers responded to tele porting Molts--or to their own nervousness.