The jacket biography describes him as a former racing driver, and he may indeed have been, although I do not recall having encountered his name either in the records or the literature.

There is no conformity on whether the word should precede or follow the name of the object it describes: both " akimbo pistols " and " pistols akimbo " are used.

Cruciferae, an older name, meaning " cross-bearing ", describes the four petals of mustard flowers, which are reminiscent of a cross ; it is one of eight plant family names without the suffix-aceae that are authorized alternative names ( according to ICBN Art.

Later in the work, when Snorri describes Baldr, he gives a longer description, citing Grímnismál, though he does not name the poem:

Q. 931 is the name of the CCITT document that describes the agreed

It generally resonates better with existing Muslim views than with Christianity: it foretells the coming of Muhammad by name ; rather than describing the crucifixion of Jesus, it describes him being raised up into heaven, similar to the description of Elijah in 2 Kings, Chapter 2 ; and it calls Jesus a " prophet " whose mission was restricted to the " house of Israel ".

The Jargon File, which describes itself as a " Hacker's Dictionary " and has thrice been published under that name, puts grok in a programming context:

The satirist Lucian, in his True History, describes him as a Babylonian called Tigranes, who assumed the name Homer when taken " hostage " ( homeros ) by the Greeks.

IEEE 802. 2 is the name given to a subsection of the IEEE 802 standard that describes a software component of a computer network.

The Testimonium Flavianum ( meaning the testimony of Flavius < nowiki ></ nowiki >) is the name given to the passage found in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities in which Josephus describes the condemnation and crucifixion of Jesus at the hands of the Roman authorities.

If the word is from Latin, the name describes the movement of the different voices against one another.

Laura Lee Hope describes it under that name in chapter XIII of The Bobbsey Twins at School, as does John P. Marquand in chapter XXXI of Wickford Point.

While Nomic is traditionally capitalized as the proper name of the game it describes, it has also sometimes been used in a more informal way as a lowercased generic term, nomic, referring to anything with Nomic-like characteristics, including games where the rules may be changed during play as well as non-gaming situations where it can be alleged that " rules lawyers " are tinkering with the process used to amend rules and policies ( in an organization or community ) in a manner akin to a game of Nomic.

The name of the genus, Pongo, comes from a 16th-century account by Andrew Battell, an English sailor held prisoner by the Portuguese in Angola, which describes two anthropoid " monsters " named Pongo and Engeco.

A sign in a shop window in Italy proclaims " No tick tock | Tic Tac ", in imitation of the sound of a clock. An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (, from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία ; ὄνομα for " name " and ποιέω for " I make ",< ref > ποιέω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus <</ ref > adjectival form: " onomatopoeic " or " onomatopoetic ") is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.

It primarily describes the coasts of southern Spain and Portugal, but makes brief mention of a visit to " the sacred isle " ( Ireland, Ierne ) located across from Albion ( an early name for Britain ).

The Precambrian ( Pre-Cambrian ) is the name which describes the large span of time in Earth's history before the current Phanerozoic Eon, and is a Supereon divided into several eons of the geologic time scale.

The name was selected as a reference to the Shakespearean play Othello, the Moor of Venice, referencing the conflict between the Moor Othello and Iago, who describes himself as " two faced " and more controversially, to the unfolding drama between Othello, who is black, and Desdemona, who is white.

This paper describes a method of creating tries of buckets which figuratively burst into sub-tries when the buckets hold more than a predetermined capacity of strings, hence the name, " Burstsort ".

In a deleted scene from the DVD version of the documentary Moog, Moog describes the three pronunciations of the name Moog: the Dutch, which he believes would be too demanding of English speakers ; the preferred Anglo-German pronunciation, ; and a more anglicized pronunciation,.

In it a traveller, Raphael Hythlodeaus ( in Greek, his name and surname allude to archangel Raphael, purveyor of truth, and mean " speaker of nonsense "), describes the political arrangements of the imaginary island country of Utopia ( Greek pun on ou-topos place, eu-topos place ) to himself and to Pieter Gillis.

He later wrote a detailed account in the book African Game Trails, where he describes the excitement of the chase, the people he met, and the flora and fauna he collected in the name of science.

The Bible describes Yahweh as the god who delivered Israel from Egypt and gave the Ten Commandments and says that Yahweh revealed himself to Israel as the who would not permit his people to make idols or worship other gods " I am Yahweh, that is My name ; I will not give My glory to another, or My praise to idols.

The name Westminster describes the area around Westminster Abbey and Palace of Westminster.

His history describes some events in detail, while in other cases only the name of a king is given.

Ahuizotl took his name from the animal Ahuizotl, which the Aztecs considered to be a legendary creature in its own right rather than a mere mythical representation of the king.

Its name is Latin for " horned male goat " or " goat horn ", and it is commonly represented in the form of a sea-goat: a mythical creature that is half goat, half fish.

The name Dardanelles derives from Dardania, an ancient land on the Asian shore of the strait which in turn takes its name from Dardanus, the mythical son of Zeus and Electra.

Some believe the name came from an island off the Greek coast, where it is believed that the mythical Icarus was buried, which resembled Failaka.

Still others name mythical entities according to certain conventions without reference to a specific story: rimmu Yggr “ Odin of battle ” = “ warrior ” ( Arnórr jarlaskáld: Magnúsdrápa 5 ).

Another mythical personage of the name of Persephione is called a daughter of Minyas and the mother of Chloris, a nymph of spring, flower and new growth.

It is possible that Hermione was a mythical name, the place of the souls.

The name ' Rocabarraigh ' is also used in Scottish Gaelic folklore for a mythical rock which is supposed to appear three times, the last being at the end of the world: " Nuair a thig Rocabarra ris, is dual gun tèid an Saoghal a sgrios " ( When Rocabarra returns, the world will likely come to be destroyed ).

The name " Argus " derives from the mythical Greek guard-beast who had 100 eyes, and could see in all directions at once.

The earliest names of Tallinn include Kolyvan () known from East Slavic chronicles, the name possibly deriving from the Estonian mythical hero Kalev.

According to some theories the name derived from mythical Linda, the wife of Kalev and the mother of Kalevipoeg.

The Sarasvati by this time had become a mythical " disappeared " river, and the name was transferred to the Ghaggar which disappeared in the desert.

* Both Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath published poems referring to Lyonnesse, the latter taking the mythical land's name as its title.

The name Proetus may also refer to the following mythical figures:

The name Daxia appears in Chinese from the 3rd century BC to designate a mythical kingdom to the West, possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BC to designate Bactria.

The name of the hypothesized protoplanet is derived from the mythical Greek titan Theia, who gave birth to the Moon goddess, Selene.

Microsoft originally publicized the NGSCB technology under the code name Palladium, which was the word for a mythical talisman that guaranteed the security of Troy.

On the second floor a bar with the name Uggleklubben opened, which was seen as almost mythical to hold in the 1950s.

The genus name Achillea is derived from mythical Greek character, Achilles, who reportedly carried it with his army to treat battle wounds.

The mythical Myrrha inspired the name and her son, Adonis, is the name given to another asteroid, 2101 Adonis.

Any resemblance to the name Midas, another mythical king of Phrygia, may be entirely coincidental.

The earlier writers only speak about it under the name of Aea ( Aia ), the residence of the mythical king Aeëtes: " Kolchian Aia lies at the furthest limits of sea and earth ," wrote Apollonius of Rhodes.

* Bianor, name of four mythical figures, see Bienor ( mythology )