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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
owl
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
night owl
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ Elsewhere these plains are home to the great grey owl and the shy brown bear.
▪ Like the great horned owl, these owls should now be getting ready to nest.
▪ The three species are the snowy owl, spotted eagle owl, and the great grey owl.
▪ Earlier last year a nesting pair of great horned owls were killed by heat from a shuttle launch.
▪ It was a great horned owl.
grey
▪ Elsewhere these plains are home to the great grey owl and the shy brown bear.
▪ The three species are the snowy owl, spotted eagle owl, and the great grey owl.
little
▪ I am like an owl of the wilderness, like a little owl of the waste places.
▪ Still more extreme damage is seen in the category 4 species, little owl, kestrel and peregrine.
▪ The sample size for the little owl is small and the variable results for this species can probably be attributed to this.
▪ In addition, at least one little owl has been raised on reactor site.
other
▪ Short wings, more pointed than other owls, combine with long tail to give hawk-like silhouette.
pygmy
▪ Still, the press jumped on the pygmy owl angle, splashing headlines about the controversy across the top of both dailies.
▪ In fact, Galvin sees protecting the pygmy owl and its habitat as a boon to the economy and wildlife alike.
▪ In the meantime, however, Amphi is still stuck with the pygmy owl problem.
▪ This could result in the plan being modified, so as not to adversely affect the pygmy owl.
▪ Environmentalists feel saving the pygmy owl requires re-establishing flourishing desert riparian areas.
▪ The only exception is in cases of self-defense, which seems unlikely in a confrontation with the pygmy owl.
▪ Sprawl kills, as it turns out, and not just pygmy owls.
snowy
▪ The three species are the snowy owl, spotted eagle owl, and the great grey owl.
▪ The snowy owl and tawny owl assemblages diverge most greatly from this, with fewer complete mandibles than maxillae.
▪ In contrast to the barn owl, the snowy owl is represented by only a single pellet sample.
▪ Category 1 again contains the barn owl and short-eared owl but joined this time by the snowy owl.
▪ I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl.
▪ In the end the decision is made by the snowy owl.
spotted
▪ The three species are the snowy owl, spotted eagle owl, and the great grey owl.
▪ Under the terms of the Act, the land was protected because of its importance for the northern spotted owl.
▪ Like the northern spotted owl, the tiny bird is dependent on old-growth forests.
tawny
▪ Wardens find him sitting in a fake oak tree beside the replica of a female tawny owl.
▪ Other birds to benefit from the treatment include a tawny owl with an injured leg, now making a fast recovery.
▪ The snowy owl and tawny owl assemblages diverge most greatly from this, with fewer complete mandibles than maxillae.
▪ And it's only the tawny owl who goes tu-whit-tu-whoo.
▪ Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge.
▪ Breeding numbers of the tawny owl were at their lowest since surveying began in 1963.
▪ No more tawny owls in the tall Scotch pines.
▪ Around 50,000 pairs of tawny owls remain in Britain, compared to just 5,000 barn owls.
■ NOUN
barn
▪ I hope to rear another barn owl like Dawn some day, from the egg to the jesses.
▪ The king snake and the barn owl are natural predators.
▪ After a century of population decline, only 4,000 of Britain's estimated 25,000 pairs of barn owls live in the wild.
▪ These values contrast with correlations between the barn owl and kestrel samples of r 0.189-0.355.
▪ In adult plumage a barn owl is beautiful and Dawn was no exception.
▪ Also I didn't have much money, and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey.
▪ Once poison has temporarily reduced rat populations to almost zero, predation by barn owls can slow the recovery.
▪ A barn owl usually lays an egg a day or every other day until there is a clutch of four to six.
eagle
▪ This is a large species of eagle owl, hunting the large gerbil that lives on the short grass plains of Serengeti.
▪ Verreaux eagle owl is also an occasional predator of small antelopes.
▪ The three species are the snowy owl, spotted eagle owl, and the great grey owl.
▪ The average relative abundances for these species ranges from 28.9 to 45.3, with intermediate values for the species of eagle owl.
▪ The eagle owls are represented by three species.
night
▪ If you are a night owl this really is the place to come to.
▪ But I also wondered what I was supposed to do about a lifelong way of living as a night owl.
pellet
▪ Also send in any records of mole remains in owl pellets or the diets of other predators.
■ VERB
bar
▪ Under normal circumstances barred owls do not frequent built-up areas.
▪ A barred owl calls down in the swamp.
▪ A barred owl has not showed up in Central Park for decades.
▪ Word of the Barrio barred owl spread among birders by means of an efficient and long established telephone grapevine.
▪ But I flushed a barred owl from a red maple tree among the balsam firs.
▪ But before we left, Jeff gave an amazingly loud and accurate rendition of the barred owl.
▪ We heard a barred owl call, and he answered it and it answered back.
find
▪ I didn't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother.
hear
▪ At night I could hear owls hooting, and the stupendous palace was only three minutes walk away.
▪ We heard a barred owl call, and he answered it and it answered back.
horned
▪ Saguaros in bloom, the glare of a horned owl and javelinas rooting for a bite to eat.
▪ Like the great horned owl, these owls should now be getting ready to nest.
▪ Earlier last year a nesting pair of great horned owls were killed by heat from a shuttle launch.
▪ It was a great horned owl.
▪ Great horned owls find shade in the trees there.
spot
▪ The spotted owl nests in the broken tops.
▪ In 1991, federal judge William Dwyer banned most logging in Washington and Oregon to save those three thousand spotted owls.
▪ One of the consequences has to do with the extirpation of species that the spotted owl dispute has Suggested.
▪ According to environmental writer Gregg Easterbrook, as many as ten thousand pairs of spotted owls may live in the western states.
▪ A total of 6. 8 million acres were set aside for another threatened bird, the northern spotted owl.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He put the owl lamp down.
▪ In 1991, federal judge William Dwyer banned most logging in Washington and Oregon to save those three thousand spotted owls.
▪ Like the great horned owl, these owls should now be getting ready to nest.
▪ Most owls are nocturnal, hunting at night for similar prey to the diurnal or day-hunting hawks.
▪ The owls are often seen outside the barn first thing in the morning, and they nip into the hay when disturbed.
▪ The only exception is in cases of self-defense, which seems unlikely in a confrontation with the pygmy owl.
▪ Whereas most people were in their beds asleep, there were a few owls who understood the pleasure of darkness.
▪ You might think we were being a bit over-cautious, but these were two very young and inexperienced owls we were releasing.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Owl

Owl \Owl\ (oul), n. [AS. [=u]le; akin to D. uil, OHG. [=u]wila, G. eule, Icel. ugla, Sw. ugla, Dan. ugle.]

  1. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigid[ae]. They have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits.

    Note: Some species have erectile tufts of feathers on the head. The feathers are soft and somewhat downy. The species are numerous. See Barn owl, Burrowing owl, Eared owl, Hawk owl, Horned owl, Screech owl, Snowy owl, under Barn, Burrowing, etc.

    Note: In the Scriptures the owl is commonly associated with desolation; poets and story-tellers introduce it as a bird of ill omen. . . . The Greeks and Romans made it the emblem of wisdom, and sacred to Minerva, -- and indeed its large head and solemn eyes give it an air of wisdom.
    --Am. Cyc.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.

    Owl monkey (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of South American nocturnal monkeys of the genus Nyctipithecus. They have very large eyes. Called also durukuli.

    Owl moth (Zo["o]l.), a very large moth ( Erebus strix). The expanse of its wings is over ten inches.

    Owl parrot (Zo["o]l.), the kakapo.

    Sea owl (Zo["o]l.), the lumpfish.

    Owl train, a cant name for certain railway trains whose run is in the nighttime.

Owl

Owl \Owl\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Owled; p. pr. & vb. n. Owling.]

  1. To pry about; to prowl. [Prov. Eng.]

  2. To carry wool or sheep out of England. [Obs.]

    Note: This was formerly illegal, and was done chiefly by night.

  3. Hence, to carry on any contraband trade. [Eng.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
owl

Old English ule "owl," from Proto-Germanic *uwwalon- (cognates: Middle Dutch, Dutch uil, Old High German uwila, German Eule, Old Norse ugla), a diminutive of PIE root *u(wa)l-, which is imitative of a wail or an owl's hoot (compare Latin ulula "owl;" also see ululation). The bird was employed proverbially and figuratively in reference to nocturnal habits, ugliness, and appearance of gravity and wisdom (often ironic).

Wiktionary
owl

Etymology 1 n. 1 Any of various bird of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing. 2 A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active. Etymology 2

n. A variety of the domestic pigeon.

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WordNet
owl

n. nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes [syn: bird of Minerva, bird of night, hooter]

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Wikipedia
Owl

Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about two hundred species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the gregarious burrowing owl.

Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds although a few species specialize in hunting fish. They are found in all regions of the Earth except Antarctica and some remote islands.

Owls are divided into two families: the true owls or typical owls, Strigidae; and the barn-owls, Tytonidae.

Owl (Marvel Comics)

The Owl (Leland Owlsley) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is depicted usually as an enemy of the superheroes Daredevil, Spider-Man and Black Cat. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Joe Orlando, the character first appeared in Daredevil #3 (August 1964).

The character has appeared in numerous media adaptations, including the Netflix web television series Daredevil, in which he is played by Bob Gunton.

Owl (disambiguation)

Owls are nocturnal birds of prey.

Owl, Owls or OWL may also refer to:

Owl (Dell Comics)

The Owl is a fictional superhero character who first appeared in Dell Comics in 1940; not to be confused with the Marvel Comics villain of the same name or with DC Comics’ Owlman.

Owl (comics)

Owl, in comics, may refer to:

  • Owl (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
  • Owl (Dell Comics), a Dell Comics superhero currently being published by Dynamite Entertainment.
Owl (hieroglyph)

The Ancient Egyptian Owl hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. G17 for the owl-in-profile, but the head faces the observer.

The owl hieroglyph is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs for the alphabetic consonant letter m.

Owl (film)

is a 2003 Japanese black comedy film directed by Kaneto Shindo. It was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival where Shinobu Otake won the award for Best Actress and Shindo was awarded a special prize for contribution to world cinema.

Owl (band)

Owl is a three piece Los Angeles-based hard rock band. Led by vocalist/bassist Chris Wyse, the long-time bassist for the Cult and a member of Ace Frehley's band, Owl released their eponymous debut in 2009 and their second album, The Right Thing, in 2013.

OWL (magazine)

OWL Magazine is a popular Canadian children’s magazine founded in 1976. Aimed at those between the ages of 9 and 13, it is published 10 times per year.

Originally a science and nature magazine, OWL stands for “Outdoors and Wild Life.” In recent years, like sister publication chickaDEE, the magazine has come to encompass a larger variety of topics.

Regular features inside the magazine include weird news from around the world, how-to articles, science stories, a reader-driven advice column, and comics “The Outrageous World of Alex and Charlie” and “ Max Finder Mystery.” Memorable past features include “Dr. Zed” (written by Canadian scientist Gordon Penrose and is being continued in chickaDEE) and comic strip “The Mighty Mites", which left in 2002.

Related OWL media has included books and videos, produced by former owner OWL Communications. In 1997, OWL (as well as sister publications chickaDEE and Chirp) was purchased by Bayard Canada, which also owns a number of French-language children’s magazines, including Les Débrouillards and Les Explorateurs.

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Usage examples of "owl".

An enclitic that shows the noun preceding it in an agglutinated Elvish word is the name of the element following the enclitic, as in Corafolamelim, Owl River.

One, two, and he had the rifle up to his shoulder, aiming at the black spot of the owl.

Mya liked to say that her father had been a goat and her mother an owl, but Alayne had gotten the true story from Maddy.

March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf tree of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper.

With the horned moon hooked round the topmost limb, And the owl awatch on the branch below, What is the song of the winds that blow Through your boughs so mysteriously?

Then he slew a cassowary and a flamingo and a grebe and a heron and a bittern and a pair of ducks and a shouting peacock and a dancing crane and a bustard and a lily-trotter and, wiping the sacred sweat from his brow with one ermine-trimmed sleeve, slew a wood pigeon and a cockatoo and a tawny owl and a snowy owl and a magpie and three jackdaws and a crow and a jay and a dove.

We passed through scattered belts of pinewood, where the wild cat howled and the owl screeched, and across broad stretches of fenland and moor, where the silence was only broken by the booming cry of the bittern or the fluttering of wild duck far above our heads.

Grunting with glee Blinky crawled down the tree and as he reached the ground the old owl flew on ahead.

After they had reached six-stopping places Blinky looked up in the tree as Mr Owl hooted.

Nearer and nearer came the call of Mr Owl, and in a very short time Blinky saw him sitting away up in a very high tree.

I am the greatest owl, monkey, baboon, rascal, oaf, ignoramus, blockhead, buffoon, or what you will.

There in that little plane, she imitated the bulbul of Malaysia and the morepork owl of New Zealand, and so on.

There was just the barking of a dog, the boom of migrating chafers, the song of the stream, and of the owls, to proclaim the beating in the heart of this sweet Night.

They flew right over it, northwards, crossing the river: the air grew colder, and Jill thought she could see the white reflection of the Owl in the water beneath her.

Mixture of sounds: man and boy relieving selves, woman singing softly to baby, baby sucking and cooing, crickets, hoot of owl, breeze through leaves .