Noun: diesel
| Singular | diesel |
| Plural | diesels |
Sample Sentences
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They were chagrined to see that the price of diesel had climbed past six dollars a gallon.
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His next truck will be a diesel.
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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. [1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 119:]
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1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., referring to Mexico's last new steam locomotives.
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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.
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Their next engine design will be a diesel.
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Thumbed a diesel down, outside a cafe. [1980, Kye Fleming and Fred Foster, ""Smoky Mountain Rain"]
Nouns inflected like diesel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From German Diesel, named after inventor Rudolf Diesel, who developed a heavy-duty engine in Germany (1892–1897) and perfected it throughout his life. See: German Nouns '
Diesel'.