Synonym: Diesel, Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel, Rudolf Diesel, diesel engine, diesel motor. Similar words: die, diet, series, facies, priest, adieu, die out, die for. Meaning: ['diːzl] n. 1. German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913) 2. an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil.
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91 Except for the new diesel engines, the trains date back to 1954.
92 Because although economic considerations are normally behind the switch, many new converts rapidly discover they prefer the diesel driving experience.
93 But does it necessarily make a secondhand diesel a good buy?
94 An example is Volvo Penta, a large producer of diesel engines for marine purposes.
95 I remember hot,(www.Sentencedict.com) still electric-storm afternoons when jackrabbits ran under Diesel truck wheels.
96 Fill it up with diesel, and it should reward you with a return of comfortably over miles per gallon on average.
97 It wants a reduction in diesel fuel duty plus a lower level of road tax on diesel cars.
98 Natural gas provides a viable alternative to petrol and diesel, offering a large cost saving per gallon.
99 The weary town crew, unable to start the frozen diesel engines of their snowplows, were the only other customers.
100 Although over the moon with it generally, I am disappointed with the lack of power in the naturally aspirated diesel engine.
101 There was a social stigma attached to diesel car ownership, too.
102 Because the diesel engine uses so much less fuel it releases substantially less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
103 He also admitted forging entries in his diesel record book.
104 The latter are modified diesel engines using a short squirt of conventional fuel to encourage injected gas to burn.
105 Yet diesel gets off easily when it comes to pollution controls.
106 The Ecuadorean tanker Jessica started leaking diesel oil after running aground last week.
107 They weren't chemists; but they started mixing ammonium nitrate fertiliser with diesel fuel, and detonating the mixture with dynamite.
108 Peugeot and Citroen countered that by providing diesel models decked out with all mod cons.
109 As the peat shrank further, more powerful electric pumps and diesel pumps became available.
110 Diesel sales continued to rise with more than 41 % of all Mercedes-Benz cars now equipped with diesel engines.
111 Adtranz manufactures electric and diesel locomotives, high-speed trains, streetcars and underground trains, and signal and traffic-control systems.
112 The railway was worked daily by up to six steam engines until the early 1960s when new diesel locomotives took over.
113 But at the other extreme some manufacturers impose what seems an incredible loading against diesel versions.
114 Diesel comes from crude oil, and it is less refined than gasoline.
115 Off on the freeway I hear a diesel coming, shifting down as the hill steepens.
116 For example, the new Citroen Xantia diesel costs exactly the same as the 1.6-litre petrol version.
117 A truck rumbled past like a snorting bull, leaving a trail of noise and diesel fumes.
118 At the kerb the taxi's diesel engine idled noisily as a passenger's face peered uncertainly through the window.
119 Every gallon of diesel bought at a U.K. service station ensures that another £1.03 in duty flows into the Treasury's coffers.
120 A stone had been dislodged by the front wheel and had punctured our diesel tank.
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