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# diesel

«diesel» in Mova's school dictionary: **a kind of heavy fuel made from oil, used in many trucks…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (diesel; also a diesel, diesels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Diesel is a kind of heavy fuel made from oil, used in many trucks, buses, trains, tractors and some cars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diesel/#m1)

2) A diesel is a vehicle or engine that uses diesel fuel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diesel/#m2)

3) It is named after Rudolf Diesel, the engineer who invented the diesel engine (a name). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diesel/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, at a petrol station (US: gas station) you choose petrol or diesel; putting the wrong one in a car can break it. In science and geography lessons, diesel is a fossil fuel that gives out carbon dioxide and pollution, so many towns now want electric buses instead. Phrases: «diesel engine», «diesel fuel», «diesel train», «diesel fumes».

### examples

- Dad filled the van with diesel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diesel/#x1)
- The diesel train rumbled into the station. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diesel/#x2)
- Tractors usually run on diesel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diesel/#x3)
- Diesel fumes make the air dirty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diesel/#x4)
- Our school bus is now electric, not diesel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diesel/#x5)
- Never put diesel in a petrol car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diesel/#x6)

### note

Uncountable for the fuel («some diesel»); countable for vehicles («two old diesels»). Capital D only for the inventor's name. Diesel is not the same as petrol (gasoline); the engines are different.

### In the corpora

- [On a bad day Jake takes Diesel for a long walk instead of shouting at anyone, and comes back calmer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/460-the-pet-that-loves-you-most/10/)
- [Electric trains take their power from overhead wires or from a third rail beside the track; diesel trains carry their own engine.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «diesel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diesel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.