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

[edit] See also

• Pressure
• Freedom of the press