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See also: non-stop and non stop

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From non- +‎ stop.

Pronunciation

Adjective

nonstop (not comparable)

  1. Without stopping; without interruption or break.
    There's a nonstop flight to Mauritius, but I'm not sitting on the same plane for thirteen hours.
    • 2024 June 18, Spencer Klavan, “A Matter of Taste”, in The American Mind‎:
      Many earnest consumers on the Right feel so legitimately embattled by the nonstop streaming feed of hate speech and psyoppery directed at them that they think they have no choice but to reconfigure their artistic sensibilities accordingly.
  2. (genetics) Describing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.
    Coordinate terms: missense, nonsense

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Adverb

nonstop (not comparable)

  1. Without stopping; without interruption or break
    Synonyms: ceaselessly, endlessly, incessantly; see also Thesaurus:continuously
    He worked nonstop for fourteen hours yesterday, just so he could get today off.

Translations

without stopping

Noun

nonstop (plural nonstops)

  1. (travel) A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.
    • 2007 October 14, David Kaufman, “Discounters Are In for the Long Hauls”, in The New York Times‎:
      With business-class seats on nonstops from British Airways and Cathay Pacific often priced up to $8,000 round trip, Mr. Exton typically flew cheaper alternatives that saved money but required layovers and plane switches.
  2. A convenience store in parts of Europe, open 24 hours a day.
    • 1994, Christopher Billy, editor, Eastern Europe: Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria (Fodor's Travel Guides), New York, NY: Fodor's Travel Publications, →ISBN, page 203:
      [In Hungary:] Most department stores and gift shops are open weekdays 10–5 or 6, Saturday until 1. Grocery stores are generally open weekdays from 7 or 8 am to 7 pm; “nonstops,” or éjjeli-nappali,[sic] are open 24 hours.
    • 2003, Time Out Budapest, page 233:
      There's usually something open on most holidays apart from the evening of 24 December when even the nonstops stop.
    • 2017, Daniel Arthur Smith, From the Inside:
      The Prague discos were bursting with bright leggings and bangles, and headbands and Rock-and-Troll leather dominated the Slayer inundated underground nonstops—Central Europe was where the West had shipped the eighties shit surpless when they were through with it.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nonstop.
  3. (linguistics) A linguistic sound that is not a stop; a continuant.
    • 2009, Christopher McCully, The Sound Structure of English: An Introduction (Cambridge Introductions to the English Language), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 182:
      Some of these consonants are stops, some are non-stops (continuants, see 11.2); some are voiced, others voiceless. It doesn't therefore look as if these consonants can have anything in common.

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Hungarian

Etymology

From English nonstop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈnonstop], [ˈnonʃtop]
  • Hyphenation: non‧stop

Adjective

nonstop (not comparable)

  1. nonstop, round the clock (without stopping or interruption)
    Synonyms: éjjel-nappali, folyamatos, folytonos
    Ez egy nonstop benzinkút. ― This is a 24-hour petrol station.

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Adverb

nonstop (not comparable)

  1. nonstop (without stopping or interruption)
    Synonyms: éjjel-nappal, folyamatosan, folytonosan
    Az üzlet nonstop nyitva tart.
    The store is open 24 hours a day.

Noun

nonstop (plural nonstopok)

  1. A convenience store open 24 hours a day.
    Synonym: éjjel-nappali
    Vettem két doboz sört egy nonstopban. ― I bought two cans of beer in a 24-hour store.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English nonstop.

Pronunciation

Adjective

nonstop m or f or n (indeclinable)

  1. nonstop (without stopping or interruption)

Noun

nonstop n (plural nonstopuri)

  1. nonstop (convenience store open 24 hours a day)
    • 2015, Florin Lăzărescu, Întâmplări şi personaje, Bucharest: Editura Polirom, →ISBN, page unknown:
      Într-o seară pe la zece, am intrat într-un nonstop să-mi cumpăr ţigări. Magazin mic, aglomeraţie mare. Doamna vânzătoare abia se mişca, scotea lucrurile solicitate din vitrină ca-ntr-o scenă din Matrix: […]
      One evening at around 10 o'clock, I've entered a nonstop to buy myself cigarettes. Small store, big agglomeration. The saleswoman hardly moved and took the requested items out of the display case as though in a scene of Matrix: […]

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