The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

Jacob Grimm suggests the name of a hypothetical god or hero, Aper or Aprus.

The present state of the evidence therefore suggests that their engravers and the Basilidians received the mystic name from a common source now unknown.

A fateful battle was fought in the Wood of Ephraim ( the name suggests a locality west of the Jordan ) and Absalom's army was completely routed.

However, virtually all major works of Greek and Latin prose possessed such clausulae ; and some scholars have rejected the identification of Libanius ' Marcellinus with Ammianus, since Marcellinus was a very common name and the tone suggests Libanius was addressing a man much younger than himself ( Ammianus was his contemporary ).

As the name suggests, towed artillery has a prime mover, usually a jeep or truck, to move the piece, crew, and ammunition around.

White suggests that the creature derives from sightings of the worm lizards of the same name.

" W. Sibley Towner suggests that Haggai's name might come " from his single-minded effort to bring about the reconstruction of that destination of ancient Judean pilgrims, the Temple in Jerusalem.

The best-known bee species is the European honey bee, which, as its name suggests, produces honey, as do a few other types of bee.

The anarchic comedy film, as its name suggests, is a random or stream-of-consciousness type of humour which often lampoons a form of authority.

Whilst the name pall mall and various games bearing this name may have been played elsewhere ( France and Italy ) the description above suggests that the croquet-like games were certainly popular in England as early as 1611.

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

As the name suggests these are roughly the groups of Lie type over fields of characteristic 2, plus a handful of others that are alternating or sporadic or of odd characteristic.

The Latin name suggests that the city was already a Celtic oppidum, or walled town, on the banks on the River Exe before the foundation of the Roman city, in about AD 50.

The Latin name for Exeter, Isca Dumnoniorum (" Water of the Dumnonii "), suggests that the city was of Celtic origin.

The Passenger Ferry, as its name suggests, carries only passengers, principally to connect with the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway at Kingswear station.

Tradition suggests that the island took its name from the Spanish navigator Diego García de Moguer, who discovered the island in the 1500s.

As the name suggests, this process is a not a true equilibrium since the system is still evolving.

The resistor is perhaps the simplest of passive circuit elements: as its name suggests, it resists the current through it, dissipating its energy as heat.

The name " mountain house " suggests a lofty structure and was perhaps the designation originally of the staged tower at Nippur, built in imitation of a mountain, with the sacred shrine of the god on the top.

If the symbolic name or actual address of an index word or electronic switch appears or is included in the operand of an XRELEASE or SRELEASE statement ( see page 101 ), the specified index word or electronic switch will again be made available, regardless of the method by which it was reserved.

This method was used until the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began ; as a result, the Academy has used a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winners since 1941.

It has also been ascribed to Isaac Newton, in the form of a practical method of physical discovery ( which he did not name or formally describe ).

Algoritmi, the translator's rendition of the author's name, gave rise to the word algorithm ( Latin algorithmus, " calculation method ").

The subspace radio, best known today from Star Trek and named for the method used in the series for achieving faster-than-light travel, was the most commonly used name for such a faster-than-light communicator in the science fiction of the 1930s to the 1950s.

The dominant method of identifying Roman years in Roman times was to name the two consuls who held office that year.

By " computerizing " this method of communications, the name of the first BBS system was born: CBBS-Computerized Bulletin Board System.

Liquids are so important to cooking that the name of the cooking method used is often based on how the liquid is combined with the food, as in steaming, simmering, boiling, braising, and blanching.

The conspiracy took its name from a torture method, in which blacks were tied to a ladder and whipped until they confessed or died.

The short cDNA sequence fragments discovered by this method are called expressed sequence tags ( ESTs ), a name coined by Anthony Kerlavage at The Institute for Genomic Research.

The name derives from the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial coefficients.

The usual method is putting the IP address of the subject host into the sub-domain of a higher level domain name, and resolve that name to different records to indicate a positive or a negative.

This method frequently results in the same name as the older method would, and is far more convenient to use.

Moore is best known today for his defence of ethical non-naturalism, his emphasis on common sense in philosophical method, and the paradox that bears his name.

* Indiglo, a brand name for a method of electroluminescence technology

* Emergency contraceptive pills ( ECPs )— sometimes simply referred to as emergency contraceptives ( ECs ) or the " morning-after pill "— are drugs intended to disrupt ovulation or fertilization, which are steps necessary for pregnancy ( contraceptives ).< ref name =" Trussell 2011 "> p. 121: Mechanism of actionCopper-releasing IUCsWhen used as a regular or emergency method of contraception, copper-releasing IUCs act primarily to prevent fertilization.

Some enthusiasts may exclude one or more of the above on the basis of distribution method, name, or parentage, but all are free-form MUSH servers.

He had several patents issued in his name from the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office, all of which involve a method of tensioning drum heads, in June 2002 – November 2004.

Tantra, literally meaning " formula ", " method, or " way ", ( parallel to the Chinese Tao, which also means " the way " or " the method "), and also having the secondary meaning of " loom ", " thread " or " warp and woof " is the name scholars give to a style of religious ritual and meditation that arose in medieval India no later than the fifth century CE, and which came to influence all forms of Asian religious expression to a greater or lesser degree.

* Overriding and overloading: The intentional use of the same name for multiple implementations of an object's method or operation to represent the same data in different ways, for conciseness when multiple similar operations are involved, and / or to alter the implementation of an inherited method to make it more suitable for the narrower definition of the object's data.

An important feature of Python is dynamic name resolution ( late binding ), which binds method and variable names during program execution.