diesel

See also Diesel

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From the inventor, Dr. Rudolph Diesel, who developed a heavy-duty engine in Germany (1892–1897) and perfected it throughout his life.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dē'zəl, IPA: /ˈdiːzəl/, SAMPA: /"di:z@l/
• Rhymes: -iːzəl

Noun

diesel (countable and uncountable; plural diesels)

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

Translations

fuel

Chinese: Mandarin: 柴油 (cmn) (cháiyóu) Danish: diesel (da) c. Dutch: diesel (nl) m. Esperanto: dizelo (eo) Estonian: diisel (et) Finnish: diesel (fi) French: gasoil (fr) m., gazole (fr) m., diesel (fr) Galician: please add this translation if you can German: Diesel (de) m. Hebrew: דיזל (dizel) m.

Interlingua: diesel Italian: diesel (it) m., gasolio (it) m. Japanese: 軽油 (ja) (けいゆ, keiyu) Latvian: dīzelis (lv) Macedonian: дизел (mk) (dízel) m., нафта (mk) (náfta) f. Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: motorină (ro) f. Russian: дизель (ru) (dízel') m. Scottish Gaelic: dìosal (gd) m. Spanish: diésel (es) m. Swedish: diesel (sv) c.

Verb

diesel (third-person singular simple present diesels, present participle dieseling, simple past and past participle dieseled)

1. To ignite a substance by using the heat generated by compression
2. (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.

   The only reason the VW bug has a solenoid is to prevent it from dieseling.

Derived terms

• biodiesel
• dieselization
• red diesel

See also

• diesel engine
• diesel knock
• derv

Anagrams

• elides
• seidel

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdi.zəl/

Noun

diesel m. (uncountable)

1. diesel

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Italian

Noun

diesel m. inv.

1. diesel (engine; vehicle)

Anagrams

• sedile

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Swedish

Noun

diesel c.

1. diesel; a fuel
2. diesel; a vehicle

Declension

Declension of diesel

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	diesel	dieseln	dieslar	dieslarna
genitive	diesels	dieselns	dieslars	dieslarnas