OTL

OTL

1. An initialism for "out to lunch," literally meaning having left one's home or workplace to get lunch. Used primarily in informal written communication. I received an automated email from the accountant saying that she was OTL.
2. An initialism for "out to lunch," figuratively meaning (by extension from Definition 1) not connected or in touch with the real world; absentminded, uninformed, or cognitively impaired. Used primarily in informal written communication. Jim's been a bit OTL lately, don't you think? I kept trying to ask her about how the meeting went, but she was OTL the whole time. It must not have gone well, because her mind was definitely elsewhere.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

OTL

(ˈoˈtiˈɛl)
phr. out to lunch; spacy; giddy. (An initialism.) Sue is OTL. She seems witless all the time.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be out to lunch
  • launch one’s lunch
  • do lunch
  • a spot of lunch
  • spot of lunch
  • launch
  • launch (one's) lunch
  • hot lunch
  • eat (one's) lunch
  • eat lunch
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OTL is pleased to be a part of the future success of START and we looking forward to helping them in furthering their mission," said Angelo Cosentini, principal, OTL Enterprises, LLC.
The OTL challenged the administrative decision with the Lahore High Court (LHC) and later the SC and in all cases it won.
Howarths managing director Gavin Howarth said: "The environments in which OTL staff operate naturally require strict levels of health and safety compliance that can be somewhat complex and time consuming.
The nanocircuit is composed of a two-wire OTL connected to a broadband nanoantenna formed by the combination of a dipole antenna (straight dipole) and a loop antenna (rectangular loop).
OTL Members pay one very low annual membership fee - just $89 for a Premiere one-year membership and are able to reserve two tickets to an unlimited amount of events offered over the course of the year.
The environment and social assessment work conducted during the Feasibility Study screened and selected a corridor within which the OTL will be constructed.
1) defines Opportunity to Learn (OTL) as "a way of measuring and reporting whether students and teachers have access to the different ingredients that make up quality schools." The OTL standards movement has balanced the last educational reforms in the USA, which dealt mainly with performance and content standards without providing the conditions to reach them; the movement has lately expanded to other countries.
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Although the gallery space was dominated by four large paintings (all oil on linen, two also incorporating collage) the first work encountered was Otl's Gift, 2011.
COVENTRY are increasingly optimistic that tomorrow's National League One game against Otl ey at the Butts Park Arena will get the go-ahead and end their two-week drought.
6 May 2010 - ICRA set Wednesday an LBB+ rating with a "stable" outlook to the INR87.5m (USD1.9m/EUR1.5m) term loans and INR50m long-term fund-based bank facilities of Indian broadcaster Orissa Television Ltd (OTL).
Significant correlations included Curriculum Type with student scores on Test A and Test B; %FRL correlated (negatively) with scores on Test A and ITED-15; Technology & Collaboration with scores on Test B and ITED-15; Opportunity-to-Learn (OTL) with performance on all three outcome measures; and Knowledge of Standards with scores on Test A and Test B.
E ainda existem autores que apresentam aproximacoes bayesianas (YI et al., 2004) e equacoes de modelos mistos para deteccao do OTL (CHEN & LIU, 2009).
Works by David Hockney, RB Kitaj, Andy Warhol and Victor Vasarely are displayed alongside the work of important graphic designers including Otl Aicher and Yusaku Kamekura.