nonstop
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌnɑnˈstɑp/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒp
Adjective edit
nonstop (not comparable)
- 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.
- (genetics) Describing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
without stopping
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Adverb edit
nonstop (not comparable)
- 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 edit
without stopping
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Noun edit
nonstop (plural nonstops)
- (travel) A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.
- 2007 October 14, David Kaufman, “Discounters Are In for the Long Hauls”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.
- 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.
- (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.
Translations edit
nonstop journey, especially a flight
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convenience store open 24 hours a day
Anagrams edit
Hungarian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
nonstop (not comparable)
- nonstop, round the clock (without stopping or interruption)
- Synonyms: éjjel-nappali, folyamatos, folytonos
- Ez egy nonstop benzinkút. ― This is a 24-hour petrol station.
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | nonstop | nonstopok |
accusative | nonstopot | nonstopokat |
dative | nonstopnak | nonstopoknak |
instrumental | nonstoppal | nonstopokkal |
causal-final | nonstopért | nonstopokért |
translative | nonstoppá | nonstopokká |
terminative | nonstopig | nonstopokig |
essive-formal | nonstopként | nonstopokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | nonstopban | nonstopokban |
superessive | nonstopon | nonstopokon |
adessive | nonstopnál | nonstopoknál |
illative | nonstopba | nonstopokba |
sublative | nonstopra | nonstopokra |
allative | nonstophoz | nonstopokhoz |
elative | nonstopból | nonstopokból |
delative | nonstopról | nonstopokról |
ablative | nonstoptól | nonstopoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
nonstopé | nonstopoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
nonstopéi | nonstopokéi |
Adverb edit
nonstop (not comparable)
- nonstop (without stopping or interruption)
- Synonyms: éjjel-nappal, folyamatosan, folytonosan
- Az üzlet nonstop nyitva tart. ― The store is open 24 hours a day.
Noun edit
nonstop (plural nonstopok)
- 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.
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | nonstop | nonstopok |
accusative | nonstopot | nonstopokat |
dative | nonstopnak | nonstopoknak |
instrumental | nonstoppal | nonstopokkal |
causal-final | nonstopért | nonstopokért |
translative | nonstoppá | nonstopokká |
terminative | nonstopig | nonstopokig |
essive-formal | nonstopként | nonstopokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | nonstopban | nonstopokban |
superessive | nonstopon | nonstopokon |
adessive | nonstopnál | nonstopoknál |
illative | nonstopba | nonstopokba |
sublative | nonstopra | nonstopokra |
allative | nonstophoz | nonstopokhoz |
elative | nonstopból | nonstopokból |
delative | nonstopról | nonstopokról |
ablative | nonstoptól | nonstopoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
nonstopé | nonstopoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
nonstopéi | nonstopokéi |
Possessive forms of nonstop | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | nonstopom | nonstopjaim |
2nd person sing. | nonstopod | nonstopjaid |
3rd person sing. | nonstopja | nonstopjai |
1st person plural | nonstopunk | nonstopjaink |
2nd person plural | nonstopotok | nonstopjaitok |
3rd person plural | nonstopjuk | nonstopjaik |
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English nonstop.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
nonstop m or f or n (indeclinable)
- nonstop (without stopping or interruption)
Noun edit
nonstop n (plural nonstopuri)
- 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: […]
Declension edit
Declension of nonstop
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) nonstop | nonstopul | (niște) nonstopuri | nonstopurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) nonstop | nonstopului | (unor) nonstopuri | nonstopurilor |
vocative | nonstopule | nonstopurilor |