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Nonstop

Definitions: Nonstop

Nonstop

Adjective

1. Of a journey especially a flight; "a nonstop flight to Atlanta".

2. At all times; "around-the-clock nursing care".

Adverb

1. Without stopping; "we are flying nonstop form New York to Tokyo".

Noun

1. A flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination; "how many nonstops are there to Dallas?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nonstop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Nonstop

DomainDefinitions

Sports & Leisure

Final practice run over actual course prior to a downhill race. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Nonstop

Synonyms: around-the-clock (adj), day-and-night (adj), round-the-clock (adj), nonstop flight (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nonstop

English words defined with "nonstop": Amelia EarhartCharles A. Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Charles LindberghEarhartLindbergh, Lucky Lindynonstop flight. (references)
Specialty definitions using "nonstop": transoceanic flight. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Nonstop" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (non-stop), Norwegian (nonstop), Swedish (nonstop).

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Modern Usage: Nonstop

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

NWA: Total Nonstop Action (2002)

Nonstop (1987)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Nonstop

DomainTitle

Books

  • Alcatel Announces Patented Nonstop Routing/Switching Technology [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Life Is a Nonstop Event (reference)

  • Nomar Garciaparra: Nonstop Shortstop (reference)

  • Nonstop Neurotic Cabaret (reference)

  • Nonstop Nonsense (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Nonstop

Computer Images:
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Non-Fiction Usage: Nonstop

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Fiji

About one-quarter came from Australia, with large contingents also coming from New Zealand, Japan, the U.S. and U.K. Over 62,000 of the tourists were American, a number that has steadily increased since the start of regularly scheduled nonstop air service from Los Angeles. (references)

Political Economy

Bangladesh

The Awami League won a majority in parliamentary elections in June 1996, after a campaign of nonstop hartals in early 1996 forced its predecessor to step down. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nonstop

"Nonstop" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 51.61% of the time. "Nonstop" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)51.61%1687,710
Adverb (general)48.39%1590,616
                    Total100.00%31N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Nonstop

Expression using "nonstop": nonstop flight. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "nonstop": nonstop-class, Nonstop-ux.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nonstop

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nonstop

Language Translations for "nonstop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

直" (through), 不停. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nepřetržitì (constantly, continuously, non-stop, steadily), stále (all the time, always, constantly, continuously, incessantly, invariably, non-stop, persistently, steadily, still), přímo (at firsthand, direct, directly, non-stop, outright, Plumb, point blank, right, roundly, sheer, straight, straight away), přímý (above board, direct, downright, firsthand, forthright, head on, immediate, non-stop, outright, outspoken, plainspoken, Plumb, plump, point blank, right, Square, straight, straightforward, through, upright), bez zastávky (non-stop). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

یکسره (All, Altogether, Hipandthigh, Indiscriminate), بدون توقف . (various references)

   

French

  

non-stop (non-stop). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χωρίσ σταθμό. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ישיר (direct, directly, express, through), ללא "פסק (always, on and on). (various references)

   

Italian

  

continuo; diretto. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

無着陸 , 無休 (without a holiday), ノイマン型 (christmas, fungo, Hague, heart, Hercules, hook, knob, knock, knockdown, knocker, knocking, knock-on, knockout, knot, know, know-how, knowledge, nautical mile per hour, Neumann-type, neuron, neurosis, no, noctovision, nocturne, nominal, nominal price, nominate, nomination, nomogram, nomograph, non career, non cling, non store retailing, non troppo, non-attachment disease, nonbank banking, nonbook, nonchalant, non-conforming design, nonfiction, nonius, nonpolitical, non-professional, nonrun, non-sectarian, nonsense, nonslip, non-terminal, nontitle match, non-verbal, non-verbal communication, Noraism, Nordic, Norma, Normandy, Norway, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostalgie, notation, notch, notchback, notch-filter, nova, Nova Scotia, novel, novelty, nozzle, number, swastika, unaffiliated, vernier calipers, vernier micrometer). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ノンストップ , むきゅう (eternity, immortality, infinitude, nonsalaried, unpaid, without a holiday), むちゃくりく. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

직행. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

nonstop. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onstopnay

   

Russian 

  

безостановочно безостановочный. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nonstop. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Nonstop

Misspellings

"Nonstop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nonstops, Nostoc, onestop. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Nonstop"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "nonstop" (pronounced nÄ"nstÄ"p)
4-s t Ä" pstop.
3-t Ä" patop, top.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Nonstop

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pontons.

Words within the letters "n-n-o-o-p-s-t"

-1 letter: ponton.

-2 letters: noons, poons, snoop, snoot, spoon, stoop, toons, topos.

-3 letters: noon, onto, oops, oots, opts, pons, poon, post, pots, snot, soon, soot, spot, stop, tons, toon, tops.

-4 letters: noo, nos, not, ons, oot, ops, opt, pot, son, sop, sot, ton, too, top.

-5 letters: no, on, op, os, so, to.

 Words containing the letters "n-n-o-o-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: pontoons, spontoon.

 

+2 letters: opponents, spontoons, troponins.

 

+3 letters: components, entropions, nonprofits, nonsupport, pantaloons, phonations, postponing, prenotions, pronations, proponents, sphenodont, topminnows, transposon.

 

+4 letters: antiprotons, conceptions, conniptions, consumption, copingstone, embonpoints, hypotension, nonhospital, nonsporting, nonsupports, omnipotents, personation, positioning, posttension, pteranodons, spontaneous, syncopation, transposons.

 

+5 letters: compensation, compunctions, conscription, conspiration, constipation, consumptions, contraptions, copingstones, corespondent, ctenophorans, empoisonment, hypotensions, monophthongs, monosynaptic, monoterpenes, mountaintops, nonhospitals, nonphosphate, nonpsychotic, nontemporals, omnipotences, personations, pollinations, polysyndeton, postneonatal, postponement, posttensions, premonitions, profanations, protonations, subcomponent, syncopations, zooplanktons.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Nonstop


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 6F 6E 73 74 6F 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ---    -.    ...    -    ---    .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101111 01101110 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#111 &#110 &#115 &#116 &#111 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 006E 0073 0074 006F 0070

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

48818085868182

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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