nonstopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From non- +‎ stop.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA: /ˌnɑnˈstɑp/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˌnɔnˈstɔp/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˌnɒnˈstɒp/
• 韻: -ɒp

形容詞

nonstop (not comparable)

1. 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.

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

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

   Coordinate terms: missense, nonsense

派生語

副詞

nonstop (not comparable)

1. 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.

名詞

nonstop (plural nonstops)

1. (travel) A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.
   • 2007 October 14, David Kaufman, “Discounters Are In for the Long Hauls”, in The 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.

2. 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.
3. (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.

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