nonstop

• non-stop

non- +‎ stop

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌnɑnˈstɑp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

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.

2. (genetics) Describing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.

   Coordinate terms: missense, nonsense

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.

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 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.

• pontons

From English nonstop.

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

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.

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.

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.

Borrowed from English nonstop.

• IPA^(key): /nonˈstop/

nonstop m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. nonstop (without stopping or interruption)

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: […]