Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A diesel engine.
- n. A vehicle powered by a diesel engine.
- n. The type of gasoline designed to power a diesel engine.
- v. To continue running after the ignition has been turned off, as when an open throttle supplies fuel to an engine that is still sufficiently hot to ignite it.
- v. To drive a diesel-powered vehicle: We dieseled through the countryside.
- v. To refuel a diesel-powered vehicle. Often used with up.
Wiktionary
- n. 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
- n. A vehicle powered by a diesel engine
- n. UK, slang snakebite and black
- v. To ignite a substance by using the heat generated by compression
- v. automotive 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil
- n. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913)
Etymologies
- From the inventor, Dr. Rudolph Diesel, who developed a heavy-duty engine in Germany (1892–1897) and perfected it throughout his life. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Produced by California startup company Amarys, this synthetic diesel is called "No Compromise Fuel.”
“Pitch black -- hott, raw, and the fewer the lines the better for vin diesel as an actor. really liked how deadly he was with the knife.”
Vin Diesel and David Twohy to Finally Make 3rd CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK – Collider.com
“The 3 diesel is even quicker, hitting 60 mph in 6.7 seconds.”
Consumer Reports: Saab expected to announce deal for BMW engines
“So costly diesel is great for Genesee & Wyoming (No. 94), which owns 10,000 miles of railroads in the U.S. and Australia.”
“Therefore, biodiesel can be used in diesel engines without expensive alterations to the engine or fuel system.”
“My main truck, an F250 super duty diesel is the best of the lot.”
“Lards are too thick to use in diesel engines, Eva.”
“I have heard you can take corn and soak it in diesel fuel, this makes it sour so the deer and turkey don't eat it all”
“Growing food crops like corn and soy to make ethanol and diesel is extremely inefficient and expensive.”
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“That monster diesel is more fuel-efficient than the standard 6. 2-liter gasoline-fueled V-8 (385 horsepower, 405 foot-pounds of torque).”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘diesel’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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TRAN - road transport
Vocabulary of road transport and roadworthiness
motor vehicle, limiter, brake drum, emission, vehicle, bodywork, chassis, vacuum pump, infrared radiation, disassemble, servo, exhaust and 216 more...
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Cepstrums
to cepstrumize a word is to reverse its 1st 4 characters in the way that "cepstrum" was derived from "spectrum" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum...
acedy, adustion, sudation, aedility, ideality, agentive, negative, agral, argal, agrestic, ergastic, alerce and 202 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
veal, valve, used, yak, wax, wan, teak, vat, vas, strip, use, strap and 4515 more...
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Automobiles
ambulance, automobile, beach buggy, cab, car, cement mixer, cherry, coach, compact, convertible, coupe, deuce and 66 more...
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WF - Words from Proper Names
bowdlerize, boycott, caesarean, lynch, pasteurize, sadist, sandwich, hoover, braille, wellington, cardigan, macintosh and 11 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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Junk
walrus, fascination, broadway, fickle, downturn, bridge, gargle, rotunda, mesh, fab, shortlife, strumming and 304 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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The O.U.P. Junior Dictionary Death Row
Another news story about words being removed from a dictionary before their time. See also the list of words added to the dictionary.
carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe, dwarf, elf, goblin, abbey, aisle, altar, bishop and 137 more...
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The History of Cool
Words that mean "cool" around the world and through the ages.
cool, awesome, wild, stylin', groovy, neat, nifty, swell, great, tubular, radical, bitchin' and 188 more...
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words from the German
kindergarten, sturm und drang, schadenfreude, zeppelin, blitzkreig, blitz, krieg, panzer, angst, nazi, zeitgeist, doppelganger and 107 more...
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Keep on truckin'
Gleanings from copies of Movin' Out, "The Journal of the Trucking Industry", and American Trucker, an advertising magazine, found at a highway service area
reefer, big rig, convoy, bobtail, cabover, tricked out, pete, peterbilt, intake brackets, sleeper, dispatcher, company driver and 138 more...
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It was good enough for Billy Burroughs
smack, dope, junk, mud, h, skag, black tar, horse, brown sugar, chiva, boy, black and 237 more...
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Eponyms Spelling Bee List
need to learn these words!!!!!!!!!!!
praline, hosta, salmonella, tortoni, gardenia, zinnia, samaritan, jeremiad, shrapnel, boswell, Fletcherism, bandersnatch and 41 more...
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Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Loanwords of German origin, so-called 'untranslatable' words, compound words, slang, and words which I (dis)like immensely.
verarschen, blitz, rucksack, hinterland, kindergarten, weltanschauung, treppenwitz, drachenfutter, torschlusspanik, katzenjammer, gedankenexperiment, frauenzimmer and 66 more...
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