# nonstop
## English
### Alternative forms

* non-stop

### Etymology

From non- +‎ stop.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/
* (General American) IPA: /ˌnɑnˈstɑp/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒp

### Adjective

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.
    Coordinate terms: missense, nonsense

#### Derived terms

* non-stop decay

#### Translations
### Adverb

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
### Noun

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: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, 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
### Anagrams

* pontons

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From English nonstop.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnonstop], [ˈnonʃtop]
* Hyphenation: non‧stop

### Adjective

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
### Adverb

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

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
## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English nonstop.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nonˈstop/

### Adjective

nonstop m or f or n (indeclinable)
* nonstop (without stopping or interruption)

### Noun

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: […]