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Diesel
01
a type of fuel made from crude oil, used in diesel engines found in trucks, buses, trains, and some cars
Examples
The truck runs on diesel, not gasoline.
02
an engine that uses compression ignition system to burn a type of heavy oil as fuel
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Simple
Countable
Plural form
diesels
