DIESEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Diesel mean? 

• DIESEL (noun)
  The noun DIESEL has 2 senses:

1. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913)

2. an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil

  Familiarity information: DIESEL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIESEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Diesel; Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel; Rudolf Diesel

Instance hypernyms:

applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

diesel; diesel engine; diesel motor

Hypernyms ("diesel" is a kind of...):

ICE; internal-combustion engine (a heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine)

Holonyms ("diesel" is a part of...):

diesel locomotive (a locomotive driven by a diesel engine)

 Context examples 

Diesel Exhaust Particulate is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.

(Diesel Exhaust Particulate, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers found that in 2015, diesel vehicles emitted 13.1 million tons of NOx, a chemical precursor to particulate matter and ozone.

(Diesel Pollutes More Than Lab Tests Detect, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They also identified the fingerprints left behind by common chemotherapy drugs, some dietary chemicals and some present in diesel exhaust fumes.

(‘Fingerprint database’ could help scientists to identify new cancer culprits, University of Cambridge)

In Europe, tighter emission norms have reduced the number of nanoparticles emitted by diesel engines.

(Nanoparticles raise vascular risk by escaping the lungs, SciDev.Net)

An unsaturated aldehyde with commercial applications, including the manufacture of sorbic acid, that is also found in tobacco smoke, gasoline and diesel engine exhausts, and smoke from wood burning.

(Crotonaldehyde, NCI Thesaurus)

Acetaldehyde is found in various plants, ripe fruits, vegetables, cigarette smoke, gasoline and diesel exhaust.

(Acetaldehyde, NCI Thesaurus)

These compounds are normally found in particulate emissions from many combustion sources, like diesel exhaust.

(Nitroarene Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)

Indene[1,2,3-cd]pyrene is primarily found in certain foods, gasoline and diesel exhaust, cigarette smoke, coal tar and coal tar pitch, soot and petroleum asphalt.

(Indeno[1,2,3-cd]pyrene, NCI Thesaurus)

Produced from renewable sources (among which soybean oil, animal fat, and cottonseed oil), this biofuel emits less pollutants than diesel does.

(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)

Listed as reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen in Report on Carcinogens (ROC), this group comprise a large class of structurally related chemicals that are normally found in particulate emissions from many combustion sources, most notably, diesel exhausts.

(Nitroarene Compound, NCI Thesaurus)