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Night Owl

Definition: Night Owl

Night Owl

Noun

1. 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 Owl

Synonyms: nightbird (n), nighthawk (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Night Owl

English words defined with "night owl": Eve churrKakapo. (references)
Specialty definitions using "night owl": Aotinaemeerschaum. (references)
Etymologies containing "night owl": NoctuleStriges. (references)

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Modern Usage: Night Owl

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Night Owl

DomainTitle

Books

  • Baby Night Owl (Just Right Books/Just Right for 3's and 4's) (reference)

  • Good Night Owl (reference)

  • Night Owl and the Rooster: A Haitian Legend (Legends of the World) (reference)

  • Night Owl Loonette (The Big Comfy Couch) (reference)

  • Onstage & Backstage: At the Night Owl Theater (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Night Owl

Computer Images:
Night Owl

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Night Owl

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Night Owl

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

   

Russian 

  

полуночник (night-bird, owl). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ave nocturna (night bird). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nattuggla (night bird, night-bird, night-owl). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gece kuşu (night bird, nighthawk), baykuş (owl). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

дрімлюга (goatsucker, night hawk, puck). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Night Owl

Misspellings

"Night Owl" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nightowl. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Night Owl

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Night Owl


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 69 67 68 74      4F 77 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 00100000 01001111 01110111 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#116 &#32 &#79 &#119 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0069 0067 0068 0074      004F 0077 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

48757374862498978

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INDEX

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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