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発音

• enPR: dē'zəl, IPA: /ˈdiːzəl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈdisəl/, /ˈdizəl/
• 韻: -iːzəl

名詞

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.

   Synonyms: diesel fuel, DFO

   Hypernyms: fuel oil < oil; fuel

   Hyponym: derv (British, road-use-specific)

   Coordinate terms: heating oil, HHO

   They were chagrined to see that the price of diesel had climbed past six dollars a gallon.

2. (countable) A vehicle powered by a diesel engine.

   Hyponyms: diesel-electric < diesel locomotive

   His next truck will be a diesel.

   • 1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 119:

     A group of overalled men at one of the dozen stained crueted tables looked up briefly as they came in and then resumed their low conversation. Relief crews for the Diesels, Bond guessed.

   • 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., referring to Mexico's last new steam locomotives.

     Their effective service life was cut short by an almost simultaneous switch to diesels - a circumstance shared with many an engine north of the border.

3. Ellipsis of diesel engine.

   Hypernym: engine

   Their next engine design will be a diesel.

   • 1980, Kye Fleming and Fred Foster, ""Smoky Mountain Rain":

     Thumbed a diesel down, outside a cafe.

4. (cycling, slang) A rider who has an even energy output, without bursts of speed.

   Hypernyms: rider, cyclist, bicyclist < person

5. (UK, slang) Synonym of snakebite and black.
6. (slang) A particular cannabis hybrid.

派生語

動詞

diesel (third-person singular simple present diesels, present participle (US) dieseling or (UK) dieselling, simple past and past participle (US) dieseled or (UK) dieselled)

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 and fuel mixture without a spark, the same way that heat and pressure cause ignition in a diesel engine.

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

参考

• derv
• diesel engine
• diesel knock
• diesel locomotive
• diesel multiple unit

Further reading

• diesel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Seidel, ediles, elides, ideles, sedile, seidel