Press

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Look up press in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Press may refer to:

In publishing:

• The press, otherwise known as the journalism business, the newspaper business, the news media, the Fourth Estate or the mass media
• A press, publishing house 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
• Shop press, a specialized auto-shop hydraulic press used to insert and remove materials from tubes and collars, particularly bearings and bushings
• 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
• A cupboard (Hiberno-English).

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:

• The Press (band), a defunct New York City Oi! band
• Press (song), a song by Paul McCartney

In sports:

• Overhead press, a weight training exercise which focus on the development of the shoulders
• 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

• The Press (disambiguation)
• Pressure
• Freedom of the press

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.