Diesel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A diesel engine.
  • n. A vehicle powered by a diesel engine.
  • n. The type of gasoline designed to power a diesel engine.
  • verb-intransitive. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To drive a diesel-powered vehicle: We dieseled through the countryside.
  • verb-intransitive. To refuel a diesel-powered vehicle. Often used with up.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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. snakebite and black
  • v. To ignite a substance by using the heat generated by compression
  • v. 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil
  • n. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913)
    • Equivalent
    diesel engine    diesel motor   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    internal-combustion engine    ice    technologist    engineer    applied scientist   
    Cross Reference
    diesel knock    derv    diesel engine   
    Form
    dieselization    red diesel    biodiesel   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cecil    Wiesel    easel    weasel   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gasoline    petroleum    fuel    turbine    kerosene    exhaust    motor    ethanol    steam    blakzilla   
     
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