Owl (disambiguation)
Owls are large nocturnal birds of prey.
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Owl, Owls, or OWL may also refer to:
Places
- On Earth
- Owl, Arizona, United States, an unincorporated community
- Owl Creek (Colorado), United States
- Owl Mountains, Poland
- Owl Peak (Wyoming), United States
- Owl River (Manitoba), Canada
- In space
- NGC 457, an open star cluster also known as the Owl Cluster
- Owl Nebula, in the constellation Ursa Major
Arts and entertainment
Characters
- Owl (comics), several comics characters, including:
- Owl (Dell Comics), a comic book superhero
- Owl (Marvel Comics), a comic book supervillain
- Owl (Winnie the Pooh), in the Winnie the Pooh stories
Film and television
- Owl (film), a 2003 Japanese black comedy
- The Owl (1927 film), a German silent film
- The Owl (1991 film), an American television film
- The Owl (TV series), a French series of animated shorts for children
- OWL/TV, a Canadian children's educational television series 1985–1994
- "Owls" (Millennium), a television episode
Literature and artwork
- "The Owl" (fairy tale), a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm
- OWL (magazine), a Canadian children's educational magazine; basis of the OWL/TV series
- The Owl (magazine): A Wednesday Journal of Politics and Society, a satirical society newspaper published in London 1864–1870
- Owl (sculpture), a public statue in Canberra, Australia
Music
- Owl (band), an American hard-rock band led by Chris Wyse, and their 2009 eponymous album
- Owls (band), an American rock band from Chicago, Illinois
- Owls (album), first studio album by the band, 2001
- Of Wondrous Legends or O.W.L., an American psych folk band, and their 1971 eponymous album
- The Owl (album), by the Zac Brown Band, 2019
- Owl, an album by Qwel and Maker, 2010
Languages
- Owl (hieroglyph), an Egyptian language uniliteral
- owl, ISO 639 code for the Old Welsh language
Computing
- Object Windows Library, a C++ object-oriented application framework
- Web Ontology Language, a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies
Military
- HMS Owl, a ship and a shore establishment
- USS Owl, two ships
- CSS Owl, a Confederate States Navy blockade runner in the American Civil War
- Curtiss O-52 Owl, a United States Army Air Corps observation aircraft used before and during World War II
Organizations and enterprises
- Fraternal Order of Owls, a fraternal order of the United States
- Older Women's League, a US grassroots organization advocating for midlife and older women
- Owl Club (Harvard), a men's only final club at Harvard College
- Owl Labs, a company that builds remote conferencing devices
- The Owl Club of South Africa
- The Owl Drug Company, an American drugs company named after the owl
Sports teams
- Bielawa Owls, an American football team based in Bielawa, Poland
- Chicago Owls, a defunct professional American football team based in Chicago
- Clinton Owls, a defunct minor league baseball team, based in Clinton, Iowa (1937–1938)
- Dayton Owls, a minor league ice hockey team in the International Hockey League for the 1977–1978 season
- Florida Atlantic Owls, the athletics teams of Florida Atlantic University
- Forest City Owls, a baseball team in the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer league
- Grand Rapids Owls, a defunct International Hockey League team
- Owls, the athletic teams of Keene State College
- Kennesaw State Owls, the athletic teams of Kennesaw State University
- Owls, the athletic teams of the University of Maine at Presque Isle
- Orem Owlz, a minor league baseball team
- Rice Owls, the athletic teams of Rice University
- Temple Owls, the athletic teams of Temple University
- Topeka Owls, a defunct Western Association minor league baseball team based in Topeka, Kansas
- Uni-Norths Owls, an Australian rugby union club
- Owls, the athletic teams of Westfield State University
- Sheffield Wednesday F.C., English football club nicknamed "The Owls"
- OWLS AC Leicester, an athletics club in Leicester, United Kingdom
- Guildford Owls, a rugby league club based in Guildford, New South Wales, Australia
Transportation
- Night Owl (train), Amtrak night train between Boston and Washington, District of Columbia; and a predecessor Owl train by the New Haven Railroad between New York and Boston
- The Owl, Canadian National Railway night train between Regina and Saskatoon
- Owl, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and later, Erie Lackawanna, night train between Hoboken and Buffalo
- Owl, Southern Pacific night trains in Texas (Dallas-Houston) and California (San Francisco-Los Angeles)
Acronym
- O. Winston Link, a photographer of steam locomotives
- Object Windows Library, an object-oriented software framework for creating Microsoft Windows applications, created by Borland
- Office Workstations Limited, UK software company and vendor of the hypertext program
- Official Tournament and Club Word List (officially NASPA Word List), the official word list for English Scrabble in North America, published by NASPA Games
- Olympic–Wallowa Lineament, a geological feature in the state of Washington
- Online Watch Link, Neighbourhood Watch management and messaging system
- Online Writing Lab, usually an extension of a college or university writing center
- Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS), study project
- OpenStreetMap Watch List, a service to track OpenStreetMap changes
- Openwall Project (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 of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Our Whole Lives, a sexuality curriculum jointly produced by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ
- Overwatch League, professional esports league for the video game Overwatch
- Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, a proposed optical telescope that would use a 100-meter-diameter main reflector
- Web Ontology Language or OWL Ontology, a language for describing and sharing ontologies on the World Wide Web
Other uses
- Owl Goingback (born 1959), American author
- Owl butterfly, a member of the genus Caligo
- Woodsy Owl, icon for the United States Forest Service most famous for the motto "Give a hoot — don't pollute!"
- Owl (AOL), a user-generated content site created by AOL in 2010
See also
- Night owl (person), a nocturnal person
- Night service (public transport), referred to as "owl service" in some cities
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