Patpong gets its name from the family that owns much of the area's property, the Patpongpanich ( or Patpongpanit ), immigrants from Hainan Island, China, who purchased the area in 1946.

The name " Hainan " also refers to Hainan Island ( 海南岛, Hǎinán Dǎo ), the main island of the province.

Although it comprises some two hundred islands scattered among three archipelagos off the southern coast, ( 97 %) of its land mass is Hainan Island, from which the province takes its name.

Mǐn or Miin (; BUC: ) is the name of a broad group of Chinese languages spoken by 60 million people in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian as well as by migrants from this province in Guangdong ( around Chaozhou-Swatou, or Chaoshan area, and the Leizhou peninsula ), Hainan, three counties in southern Zhejiang, and Zhoushan archipelago off Ningbo, and some towns in Liyang and Jiangyin city in Jiangsu province, and Taiwan.

An ethnic Chinese, Chinese name: 凌绪光 ( Ling Xu Guang ), who hails from Luang Prabang with ancestry from Hainan, he was a protégé of Kaysone Phomvihane.

In Min ( including dialects of Chaozhou ( Teochow ), Hainan, Fujian, and Taiwan ), the name is pronounced Tan.

The local informal name for the university was " Hainan School " in reference to an old name for Qingdao.

Generally speaking, the name is relatively absent in the farthest geographical extremes of China, namely southern Yunnan, Guangxi, and the island province of Hainan.

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.

What's its name??

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

It is the same ole same, tell me its name.

On May 11,330, A.D.,, its name was changed again, this time to Constantinople after its emperor, Constantine.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

This indicates that this drug is being marketed under one trade name only or state regulatory organizations have approved its use on the feed tag.

The name thyroid-stimulating hormone ( TSH ) has been given to a substance found in the anterior pituitary gland of all species of animal so tested for its presence.

The line soon lived up to its name, as local messages of moderate length could be sent for a dime and the company was quickly able to declare very liberal dividends on its capital stock.

The Institute derives its name from Paul Von Groth's Chemische Krystallographie, a five-volume work which appeared between 1906 and 1919.

Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.

The great column from which the square takes its name was erected by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

`` Such a vicious statement can only have its origin in the desire of a new political candidate to try to make his name known by condemning a man of world stature.

In the latter year Samuel Hopkins, from whom the Hopkinsian strain of New England theology took its name, asked the Continental Congress to abolish slavery.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

" Historian Donald described the speech as a " superb political move for an unannounced candidate, to appear in one rival's ( William H. Seward ) own state at an event sponsored by the second rival's ( Salmon P. Chase ) loyalists, while not mentioning either by name during its delivery.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

The most famous such organism is Amoeba proteus ; the name amoeba is variously used to describe its close relatives, other organisms similar to it, or the amoeboids in general.