Owl (disambiguation)

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Owl is the name of any one of about 220 species of mainly nocturnal birds of prey.

In addition, Owl may refer to:

• The Owl, a villain in Marvel Comics
• The Owl, a superhero who first appeared in Dell Comics
• Owl (Winnie the Pooh), a character in the Winnie the Pooh stories
• Owls (band), an indie-rock band from Chicago, Illinois
• The Owls (band), an indie-rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota
• 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
• Temple Owls, the athletic teams of Temple University
• Uni-Norths Owls, an Australian rugby union club
• Sheffield Wednesday, an English football club are nicknamed the Owls
• Owl (document repository system), an open source, multi user document repository (knowledgebase) system
• Owl (magazine), a children's/educational magazine published in Canada
• Night owl (person), as opposed to lark
• Owl service, or night bus, bus service that runs through night time hours

OWL or Owl or owl is also short for:

• Object Windows Library, an object-oriented software framework for creating Microsoft Windows applications, created by Borland
• 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
• Web Ontology Language, a markup language for publishing and sharing data using ontologies on the World Wide Web
• 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