Your description of the diesel design properties reminds of a supposedly true story my neighbor told me about this blonde bartender who innocently asked how a four-stroke engine worked, saying that nobody had been able to explain it to her.
Four guys tried with the usual statements of intake, compression, ignition and exhaust all using colorful and descriptive terms like imagine a vacuum cleaner, think about about fluffling a pillow, light the fireplace, watch a window fan, etc.
An old dude, sittting at the end of the bar, known to be impatient, cranky and spare with words got up off his stool and walking towards the group of young suitors just stepped up between them and said:
” Look Missy, it’s like this - SUCK, SQUEEZE, BANG, BLOW!”
The blonde beamed and said, “Well, why didn’t y’all say so in the first place,” and went back to wiping glasses.