1 (also diesel fuel, diesel oil) [U] a type of heavy oil used as a fuel instead of petrol/gas:
a diesel engine (= one that burns diesel) * diesel cars / locomotives / trains
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2 [C] a vehicle that uses diesel fuel:
Our new car is a diesel.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for diesel is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is diesel a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, diesel is tagged as noun.
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