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Dies Janse
Dies Janse (born 2006, Goes) is a Dutch left-footed centre-back, 1.96 m, for Ajax; debuted 11 August 2024 vs sc Heerenveen, loaned to FC Groningen 2025/26, contract extended to June 2030.
Diesel (2025 film)
Diesel (டீசல்) is a 2025 Tamil action thriller directed by Shanmugam Muthusamy, starring Harish Kalyan as a North Chennai diesel smuggler opposite Vinay Rai; released October 17, 2025, streaming on Aha Tamil and Sun NXT from November 21, 2025.
Diesel (fashion house)
Diesel is an Italian fashion brand, led by denim and positioned in premium casual wear, founded in 1978 in Molvena and controlled by Renzo Rosso's OTB Group.
Diesel Brothers
Diesel Brothers is a Discovery Channel reality series (2016–2022) starring David 'Heavy D' Sparks and 'Diesel Dave' Kiley, Utah truck builders known for custom diesel builds, giveaways, and a Clean Air Act emissions-tampering lawsuit.
Diesel cycle
The Diesel cycle is the idealized thermodynamic model for compression-ignition engines, proposed by Rudolf Diesel in 1892, adding heat at constant pressure rather than constant volume.
Diesel Electric railmotor (VR)
The Diesel Electric railmotor was a class of ten railmotors operated by the Victorian Railways in Australia, built at Newport Workshops between 1928 and 1931.
Diesel engine
The diesel engine, or compression-ignition engine, is an internal combustion engine that ignites fuel by compression alone; Rudolf Diesel completed the first working one in 1897.
Diesel engine runaway
Diesel engine runaway, also called diesel runaway, is a condition where a diesel engine runs out of control on unintended fuel such as its own oil.
Diesel exhaust fluid
Diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), sold as AdBlue, is a 32.5 percent urea solution injected into diesel exhaust, where it reduces nitrogen oxide emissions in SCR systems.
Diesel fuel
Diesel fuel, also called petrodiesel or diesel oil, is distillate fuel oil sold for compression-ignition engines, where fuel self-ignites in hot compressed air without a spark plug.
Diesel generator
A diesel generator, also called a genset or generating set, couples a diesel engine to an electrical alternator, providing standby power for hospitals and prime power on isolated grids.
Diesel La Torraca
Diesel La Torraca (born 2011, Australia) is an Australian child actor known as Austin Miller in Netflix's Ginny & Georgia, Felix in Little Monsters, Isaiah in La Brea, and roles in Lambs of God and Unsung Hero.
Diesel locomotive
A diesel locomotive is a railway locomotive powered by a diesel engine, most often as a diesel-electric whose generator feeds traction motors geared to the axles.
Diesel multiple unit
A diesel multiple unit, or DMU, is a self-propelled passenger train with on-board diesel engines, used on lines where full electrification is not financially feasible.
Diesel particulate filter
A diesel particulate filter, or DPF, is an exhaust device that traps soot from diesel engines in a ceramic honeycomb, cutting particulate matter by over 85 percent.
Diesel–electric powertrain
A diesel–electric powertrain, also known as a diesel–electric transmission, is a propulsion system in which a diesel engine drives a generator and electric motors turn the wheels.
Dieselpunk
Dieselpunk is a retrofuturistic science fiction and visual art genre blending the technology, aesthetics, and politics of the interwar and World War II era with speculative elements.
Diet
Diet (nutrition): habitual food and beverage intake patterns. WHO principles (adequacy, balance, moderation, diversity), quantitative limits on sugars, fat, salt; US Dietary Guidelines since 1980, 2025-2030 edition with inverted pyramid.
Diet (assembly)
Diet (assembly): formal name for a legislative assembly, from Low Latin diaeta. Applies to the Holy Roman Empire's imperial Diet, German Landtage, and Japan's National Diet, a bicameral legislature established in 1889.
Diet Coke
Diet Coke (Coca-Cola Light in some markets) is The Coca-Cola Company's sugar-free, calorie-free cola, launched July 8, 1982 as the first Coca-Cola trademark extension, sweetened with aspartame and distinct in taste from Coca-Cola Zero Sugar.
Diet in Hinduism
Diet in Hinduism covers food rules varying by tradition, caste, and region: lacto-vegetarianism favored, beef taboo (72% say beef eaters cannot be Hindu), 44% of Indian Hindus vegetarian, Ekadashi fasting, and Dharmaśāstra abhakṣya rules.
Diet in Sikhism
Diet in Sikhism is the set of food practices followed by Sikhs, prohibiting kutha meat and alcohol and centering communal life on the free vegetarian langar meal.
Diet of Augsburg
Diet of Augsburg (1530), imperial diet of the Holy Roman Empire summoned by Charles V to Augsburg, where the Augsburg Confession (Confessio Augustana) was presented on 25 June 1530; also produced the Bucer-Capito Confessio Tetrapolitana.
Diet of Hungary
The Diet of Hungary (Magyar Országgyűlés) was the national assembly of estates of the Kingdom of Hungary, emerging in the thirteenth century and holding exclusive rights of taxation and soldier recruitment.
Diet of Porvoo
The Diet of Porvoo (Боргоский сейм) was the assembly of Finland's four estates convened by Alexander I at Porvoo in 1809, after Russia conquered Finland from Sweden.
Diet of Pressburg (1687)
The Diet of Pressburg (1687) was the Hungarian assembly at Pressburg (Pozsony, today Bratislava) convened by Leopold I, which accepted hereditary Habsburg succession and crowned his son Joseph.
Diet of Pressburg and the 1608 laws
The Diet of Pressburg and the 1608 laws (1608. évi pozsonyi országgyűlés törvényei) are Hungarian statutes of 1608 confirming religious freedom and crowning Matthias II king.
Diet of Torda
The Diet of Torda (Hungarian: tordai országgyűlés) refers to sixteenth-century sessions of the Transylvanian Diet at Torda, today Turda, Romania, most famously the January 1568 assembly.
Diet of Worms
Diet of Worms (Reichstag zu Worms), imperial diet of the Holy Roman Empire held January–May 1521 under Charles V, where Martin Luther refused to recant (17–18 April), leading to the Edict of Worms declaring him an outlaw.
Diet Pepsi (song)
"Diet Pepsi" is a 2024 synth-pop single by Addison Rae, her debut Columbia release, produced in Stockholm by Luka Kloser and Elvira Anderfjärd; it hit UK No. 10, debuted at Hot 100 No. 86, and led her album Addison.