different between incessant vs nonstop

English

Etymology

From Old French incessant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s?s.?nt/
• Hyphenation: in?ces?sant

Adjective

incessant (comparative more incessant, superlative most incessant)

1. Without pause or stop; not ending, especially to the point of annoyance.

   The dog's incessant barking kept the girl awake all night.

Synonyms

• unremitting
• continuous
• unceasing

Translations

Anagrams

• anticness, cantiness, instances, tenascins

Catalan

Etymology

in- +? cessant

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /in.s??sant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /in.s??san/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /in.se?sant/

Adjective

incessant (masculine and feminine plural incessants)

1. incessant

Derived terms

• incessantment

Related terms

• cessar

Further reading

• “incessant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “incessant” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “incessant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “incessant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Adjective

incessant (feminine singular incessante, masculine plural incessants, feminine plural incessantes)

1. incessant

Further reading

• “incessant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• instances

Latin

Verb

incessant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of incess?

English

Alternative forms

• non-stop

Etymology

non- +? stop

Pronunciation

Adjective

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.

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

   Coordinate terms: missense, nonsense

Translations

Adverb

nonstop (not comparable)

1. Without stopping; without interruption or break

   Synonyms: ceaselessly, endlessly, incessantly; see also Thesaurus:continuously

Translations

Noun

nonstop (plural nonstops)

1. (travel) A nonstop journey, especially a nonstop flight.
2. A convenience store in parts of Europe, open 24 hours a day.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nonstop.
3. (linguistics) A linguistic sound that is not a stop; a continuant.

Translations

Anagrams

• pontons

Hungarian

Etymology

From English nonstop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nonstop], [?non?top]
• Hyphenation: non?stop

Adjective

nonstop (not comparable)

1. nonstop (without stopping or interruption)

   Synonyms: éjjel-nappali, folyamatos, folytonos

Declension

Adverb

nonstop (not comparable)

1. nonstop (without stopping or interruption)

   Synonyms: éjjel-nappal, folyamatosan, folytonosan

Noun

nonstop (plural nonstopok)

1. A convenience store open 24 hours a day.

   Synonym: éjjel-nappali

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From English nonstop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /non?stop/

Adjective

nonstop m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. nonstop (without stopping or interruption)

Adverb

nonstop m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. nonstop (without interruption)

Noun

nonstop n (plural nonstopuri)

1. nonstop (convenience store open 24 hours a day)

Declension