OWL
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Owl and OWL and similar may mean:

• Owl, any one of about 220 species of mainly nocturnal birds of prey.

• Night owl (person), a person who tends to stay up until late at night
• Owl service, a bus service that runs through night-time hours
• Owl (magazine), a children's/educational magazine published in Canada
• The Owl Journal, an inter-disciplinary journal published by students of the University of Oxford
• The Owl (TV series), a series of animated shorts
• The Owl (film), a 1991 action genre television movie

Fictional characters

• The Owl (Dell Comics), a comic book superhero
• Owl (Marvel Comics), a comic book supervillain
• Owl (Winnie-the-Pooh), a character in the Winnie the Pooh stories

Music

• Owls (band), an indie-rock band from Chicago, Illinois

Sports teams

• Chicago Owls, a defunct professional American football team based in Chicago
• Florida Atlantic Owls, the athletics teams of Florida Atlantic University
• Grand Rapids Owls, a defunct International Hockey League team
• Orem Owlz, a minor league baseball team
• Temple Owls, the athletic teams of Temple University
• Uni-Norths Owls, an Australian rugby union club
• "The Owls", a nickname for the English football club Sheffield Wednesday

Acronyms

• Object Windows Library, an object-oriented software framework for creating Microsoft Windows applications, created by Borland
• Online Watch Link, Neighbourhood Watch management and messaging system
• Office Workstations Limited, maker of the Guide hypertext program.
• Official Tournament and Club Word List, the National Scrabble Association's official word authority for tournament Scrabble in North America
• Older Women's League, a US grassroots organization advocating for midlife and older women
• Online Writing Lab, usually an extension of a college or university writing center
• Openwall GNU/*/Linux (Owl), a hardened Linux distribution
• Ordinary Wizarding Level, a test of magical aptitude in the Harry Potter novel series
• Ostwestfalen-Lippe, an area in the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany
• Our Whole Lives, a sexuality curriculum jointly produced by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ, with versions for students and adults
• Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope that would use a 60-meter-diameter main reflector
• Ottawa Walking Language, an assembly-like language used to formulate locomotive commands to a six-legged walking robot developed at the University of Ottawa in the early 1980s for preliminary investigation into formulating and optimizing the mechanics of robotic navigation amid obstacles (e.g., ascending stairs, climbing into the back of a truck).
• Obfuscated Weird Language, a forth-like language based on characters in the style of "false"
• O. Winston Link, a photographer of steam locomotives
• Web Ontology Language, a markup language for publishing and sharing data using ontologies on the World Wide Web

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