nonstop

alternative non-stop

1. not comparableWithout stopping; without interruption or break.

   There's a nonstop flight to Mauritius, but I'm not sitting on the same plane for thirteen hours.

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   Christmas in Strasbourg and the rest of Alsace is officially feted from the last Saturday in November through Dec. 31 in a month full of nonstop markets, concerts, torch-lighted forest walks, parades, live Nativity scenes, storytelling, theater and public aperitifs.

   2004 November 27, Robert V. Camuto, “Old World Holiday: It’s All Marketing”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

   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.

   2024 June 18, Spencer Klavan, “A Matter of Taste”, in The American Mind

2. not comparablebiologyDescribing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of an mRNA strand.

alternative non-stop

1. not comparableWithout stopping; without interruption or break

   He worked nonstop for fourteen hours yesterday, just so he could get today off.

   Synonyms: ceaselessly, endlessly, incessantly, ceaselessly, consecutively, constantly, continently, continually

plural nonstops · alternative non-stop

1. lifestyleA nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.

   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.

   2007 October 14, David Kaufman, “Discounters Are In for the Long Hauls”, in The New York Times

2. A convenience store in parts of Europe, open 24 hours a day.

   There's usually something open on most holidays apart from the evening of 24 December when even the nonstops stop.

   2003, Time Out Budapest, page 233

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   [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.

   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

   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.

   2017, Daniel Arthur Smith, From the Inside

3. human sciencesA linguistic sound that is not a stop; a continuant.

   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.

   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