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Definition: Night Owl |
Night OwlNoun1. A person who likes to be active late at night. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Night OwlSynonyms: nightbird (n), nighthawk (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Night Owl |
| English words defined with "night owl": Eve churr ♦ Kakapo. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "night owl": Aotinae ♦ meerschaum. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "night owl": Noctule ♦ Striges. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The Night Owl case made you. Do you want to tear all that down? (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland) | |
Lyrics | He's a night owl ("Night Owls"; performing artist: Little River Band) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Night Owl (1927) The Night Owl (1926) Night Owl (1993) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
night owl | 125 |
night owl optics | 82 |
night owl night vision | 9 |
night owl binoculars | 4 |
night owl tuzla | 4 |
lyrics night owl | 3 |
fritz night owl | 2 |
creation night owl | 2 |
night owl vision | 2 |
night owl camera | 2 |
night owl monocular | 2 |
lure night owl | 2 |
nestor night owl | 2 |
night owl video | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "night owl"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | noèní mùra (nightmare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ξενύχτησ (night bird). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nottambulo (nighthawk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 宵っ張り (late bird, nighthawk, sitting up late), 宵っぱり (late bird, nighthawk, sitting up late). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | よいっぱり (late bird, nighthawk, sitting up late). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ightnay owlay полуночник (night-bird, owl). (various references) ave nocturna (night bird). (various references) nattuggla (night bird, night-bird, night-owl). (various references) gece kuşu (night bird, nighthawk), baykuş (owl). (various references) дрімлюга (goatsucker, night hawk, puck). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Night Owl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nightowl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-l-n-o-t-w" | |
-1 letter: howling, tholing. | |
-2 letters: holing, lowing, tiglon, toling, towing. | |
-3 letters: glint, ingot, light, lingo, litho, night, ohing, owing, thing, thiol, thong, tigon, wight. | |
-4 letters: gilt, glow, gown, hilt, hint, holt, hong, howl, into, ling, lino, lint, lion, loin, long, loth, loti, lown, nigh, noil, nowt, thin, thio, ting, toil, tong, town, twig, twin, whig, whin, whit, wilt, wing, wino, with, wont. | |
-5 letters: ghi, gin, git, got, hin, hit, hog, hon, hot, how, ion, lin, lit, log, lot, low, nil, nit, nog, noh, not, now, nth, oil, owl, own, tho, til, tin, tog, ton, tow, two, who, wig, win, wit, wog, won, wot. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-l-n-o-t-w" | |
+1 letter: nightglow. | |
+2 letters: nightglows, outhowling. | |
+3 letters: downrightly, outwhirling, withholding. | |
+4 letters: flowcharting. | |
+5 letters: flowchartings, woolgathering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 67 68 74      4F 77 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01001111 01110111 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i g h t   O w l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0067 0068 0074      004F 0077 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48757374862498978 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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