Wol

Wol, WoL or WOL may refer to:

Computing
  • Wake-on-LAN, an Ethernet standard that allows computers to be turned on by a network message
  • Warhammer Online, abbreviation used internally by Games Workshop staff
  • War of Legends, a fantasy real-time strategy game published by Jagex Games Studio
  • Web Ontology Language (although the official acronym is OWL), a markup language for publishing and sharing data using ontologies on the World Wide Web
  • Westwood Online, multi-player game mode by Westwood Studios, superseded by XWIS
  • Wings of Liberty, the first part of the trilogy that makes up Starcraft II
  • .wol file extension, WOLF proprietary format for eBooks on the Hanlin eReader
  • World Online, a defunct European internet service provider
Other
  • Owl (Winnie the Pooh), character in the Winnie the Pooh stories, who spells his name "Wol"
  • Wide outside lane, in bicycle transportation engineering
  • WOL (AM), a radio station in Washington, D.C.

Famous quotes containing the word wol:

    “But age, allas that al wol envenime,
    Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith—
    Lat go, farewel, the devel go therwith!
    The flour is goon, ther is namore to telle:”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “I wol nat lye;
    A man shal winne us best with flaterye;
    And with attendance, and with bisinesse,
    Been we ylymed, bothe more and lesse.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “I wol bistowe the flour of al myn age
    In th’actes and in fruit of mariage.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)