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DIESEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil
Synonyms:
diesel; diesel engine; diesel motor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913)
Synonyms:
Diesel; Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel; Rudolf Diesel
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)
Context examples:
Benz(a)anthracene is primarily found in gasoline and diesel exhaust, tobacco and cigarette smoke, coal tar and coal tar pitch, coal combustion emissions, charcoal-broiled foods, amino acids, fatty acids and carbohydrate pyrolysis products, wood and soot smoke, and creosote, asphalt and mineral oils.
(Benz[a]anthracene, NCI Thesaurus)
Lymphocyte-DNA adduct formation is associated with exposure to diesel exhaust particulates and may be associated with an increased risk of developing lung cancer.
(Diesel Exhaust Particulate, NCI Thesaurus)
The findings reveal major inconsistencies between what vehicles emit during testing and what they emit in the real world —a problem that's far more severe, said the researchers, than the incident in 2015, when federal regulators discovered Volkswagen had been fitting millions of new diesel cars with defeat devices.
(Diesel Pollutes More Than Lab Tests Detect, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A complex mixture of combustion products of diesel fuel including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, volatile hydrocarbons, aldehydes, alkenes, alkanes and nitroarenes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other derivates.
(Diesel Exhaust Particulate, NCI Thesaurus)
