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
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:
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
See also