Press
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Press may refer to:
In publishing:
- The press or journalism
- The press or the newspaper business
- The press or news media
- The Fourth Estate, the press in its explicit capacity of advocacy and in its implicit ability to frame political issues
- The popular press or mass media
- A press or publishing house
- A press or printer (publisher)
- Printing press, a machine that presses ink from a printing plate onto paper
- The Press, a newspaper published in Christchurch, New Zealand
- The Press (York), an English regional newspaper
- Press TV, an Iranian English-language news channel
In industry and home economics:
- Machine press, a machine that shapes material by the application of pressure
- Hydraulic press, a machine press operating by hydraulic pressure
- Flypress, a machine that cuts material by pressing with a sharp edged mold or tool
- Linen-press, a cabinet for storing household textiles and clothing.
- Trouser press, an appliance to remove wrinkles from trousers
- RAM press, a patented machine used to press clay in the pottery business
- Pressing or ironing, the process of pressing wrinkles out of (or into) clothes
- A method of straightening curly hair, primarily used by African-Americans, that uses a hot comb
In food preparation:
- French press, a device for coffee preparation
- Fruit press, a press used to extract juice from grapes and apples
- Garlic press, a device to crush garlic cloves for cooking.
- Ram press (food), a device used to extract juice from fruits, like grapes, apples and oil from crushed oil seeds
In music:
- "Press" (song), a song by Paul McCartney
In sports:
- Clean and press, a weight-training exercise, and one of the three lifts contested in the sport of weightlifting until 1972
- Military press, a weight-training exercise
In military:
- Impressment, a method of involuntary recruitment by a Navy department