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nonstop
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nonstop has 1 sense
- nonstop(n = noun.act) nonstop flight - a flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination; "how many nonstops are there to Dallas?" is a kind of flight
Adjective nonstop has 2 senses
- nonstop(s = adj.all) Array - (of a journey especially a flight) occurring without stops; "a nonstop flight to Atlanta"
- nonstop(s = adj.all) around-the-clock, day-and-night, round-the-clock - at all times; "around-the-clock nursing care"
Adverbial nonstop has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
nonstop, adj.
- without an intermediate stop; -- of trips in public conveyances, especially of a flight. [WordNet 1.5]
- same as around-the-clock. [WordNet 1.5]
nonstop, n.
A flight made without intermediate landings between source and destination; as, how many nonstops are there to Dallas?. [WordNet 1.5]
THESAURUS
nonstop
ageless, articulated, catenated, ceaseless, coeternal, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclical, dateless, direct, endless, eternal, eterne, ever-being, ever-durable, ever-during, everlasting, everliving, featureless, gapless, immediate, immemorial, incessant, indestructible, infinite, interminable, joined, jointless, linked, monotonous, never-ceasing, never-ending, nonterminating, nonterminous, olamic, perdurable, perennial, periodic, permanent, perpetual, recurrent, repetitive, round-the-clock, running, seamless, sempiternal, serried, smooth, stable, steady, straight, timeless, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, without end
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