nonstop

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Without stopping

   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.
   • 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. 2

   Describing a point mutation within a stop codon that causes the continued translation of…

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

3. 3

   A 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.
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   1. 4

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

      • [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.
      • There's usually something open on most holidays apart from the evening of 24 December when even the nonstops stop.
   2. 5

      A linguistic sound that is not a stop

      A 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.

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