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to dieselize

to dieselize

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To change a vehicle or engine so it uses diesel fuel
  • verb
  • /ˈdiːzəˌlaɪz/
  • Specialized
: diéselizar
  • The company decided to dieselize its entire fleet of delivery trucks to improve fuel efficiency.

Examples

  • ETB routes 2, 3-4, and 12 are often dieselized on weekends.

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  • After its introduction, there were some substantial stumbles: underspecced transmissions and that abysmal dieselized engine come to mind.

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  • To reduce costs, they plan to dieselize the local buses within the next year.

  • The engineering team worked hard to dieselize the machinery in the factory for better performance.

Surface Forms

dieselize infinitive
dieselized past
dieselized past participle
dieselizing present participle
dieselizes third person singular

Morphology

dieselize = diesel (transparent) = diesel + ize

Formed by the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' added to the noun 'diesel', yielding 'to convert to diesel'; meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

The word dieselize comes from diesel, the fuel named after inventor Rudolf Diesel, and the ending -ize, the same ending you see in modernize, which means 'to make'. So, to dieselize something is to change it so it 'uses diesel fuel'.