diesel
/ˈdiːz(ə)l
/noun
1 (also diesel engine) An internal combustion engine in which heat produced by the compression of air in the cylinder is used to ignite the fuel: [as modifier]: a diesel locomotive...
- With the amount of misinformation out there on diesel and turbo charging diesels we feel obliged to inform you of the facts.
- In the engine chamber of diesels, the pistons are rigged to create a high amount of pressure.
- The greater the compression of a diesel engine, the greater its power.
1.1 [mass noun] (also diesel oil) A heavy petroleum fraction used as fuel in diesel engines: eleven litres of diesel...
- Today, most forms of transportation depend on the combustion of a hydrocarbon fuel such as gasoline, kerosene, or diesel oil to produce the energy that drives pistons and moves the vehicles on which modern society depends.
- We don't need to have gasoline as a fuel, or diesel oil as a fuel.
- Kerosene and diesel oil contribute the most to petroleum subsidy.
Derivatives
dieselize
- This came about with Canadian National railways dieselizing, (to say nothing of the CR itself), and the arrival in 1958 of the Trans Canada oil pipeline.
- Coal continued in use for some years after the railways dieselized in 1960.
- Once PRR made the commitment to dieselize, it tried to find an application for the Tl on roads still committed to coal burning steam locomotives such as C&O.
Origin
Late 19th century: named after R. Diesel (see Diesel, Rudolf).
Rhymes
- unamplified
- unamused
- unanalysable
- unanalysed
- unanalyzable
- unanalyzed
- unanchored
- unaneled
- Unani
- unanimated
- unanimity
- unanimous
- unanimously
- unanimousness
- unannounced
- unanswerability
- unanswerable
- unanswerableness
- unanswerably
- unanswered
- unanticipated
- unapologetic
- unapologetically
- unapparent
- unappealable