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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
• 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
• 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

See also

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

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From Wikiquote

Quotes about the press.

See also: Journalism.

Sourced

• An important thing to remember about the press is there is no ideological bias
  • Jon Meacham, quoted in Doro Bush, My Father, My President, p. 218.[1]

Unsourced

• "In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands."
  • James A. Garfield

• "The productions of the press, fast as steam can make and carry them, go abroad through all the land, silent as snowflakes, but potent as thunder. It is an additional tongue of steam and lightning, by which a man speaks his first thought, his instant argument or grievance, to millions in a day."
  • Chapin

• "Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights."
  • Junius

• "The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for all freedom without this must be merely nominal."
  • Chatfield

• "The invention of printing added a new element of power to the race. From that hour, in a most especial sense, the brain and not the arm, the thinker and not the soldier, books and not kings, were to rule the world; and weapons, forged in the mind, keen-edged and brighter than the sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and the battle-axe."
  • Whipple

References

Look up press in Wiktionary, the free dictionary

• Klopsch, Louis, 1852-1910 (1896). Many Thoughts of Many Minds.  

From LoveToKnow 1911

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Etymology 1

Middle English presse "throng, crowd, clothespress", partially from Old English press "clothespress" from Mediaeval Latin pressa, and partially from Old French presse (Modern French presse) from Old French presser "to press" from Latin pressāre from pressus, past participle of premere "to press". Displaced native Middle English thring "press, crowd, throng" (from Old English þring "a press, crowd, anything that presses or confines").

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

press (plural presses)

1. A device used to apply pressure to an item.

   ...a flower press.

2. A collective term for the print based media (both the people and the newspapers)

   This article appeared in the press.

   ...according to a member of the press...

3. An enclosed storage space (eg closet, cupboard).

   Put the cups in the press.

4. General term for a printing machine.

   Stop the presses!

5. (weightlifting) An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
   • 1974, Charles Gaines & George Butler, Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of Bodybuilding, page 22.

     This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench […]

Synonyms

• (storage space): closet, cupboard, wardrobe (British)
• (printing machine): printing press

Derived terms

• bench press
• fruit press
• press cake
• press-mark
• shoulder press
• trouser press

Translations

Etymology 2

Middle English pressen "to crowd, thring, press" from Old French presser "to press" (Modern French presser) from Latin pressāre from pressus, past participle of premere "to press". Displaced native Middle English thringen "to press, crowd, throng" (from Old English þringan "to press, crowd"), Middle English thrasten "to press, force, urge" (from Old English þrǣstan "to press, force"), Old English þryscan "to press", Old English þȳwan "to press, impress".

Verb

to press (third-person singular simple present presses, present participle pressing, simple past and past participle pressed or prest^[1])

1. (ambitransitive) to exert weight or force against, to act upon with with force or weight
2. (transitive) to compress, squeeze

   to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice

3. (transitive) to clasp, hold in an embrace; to hug

   She took her son, and press'd

   The illustrious infant to her fragrant breast (Dryden, Illiad, VI. 178.)

4. (transitive) to reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth

   to press cloth with an iron

   to press a hat

5. (transitive) to drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction

   to press a crowd back

6. (transitive, obsolete) to weigh upon, oppress, trouble

   He turns from us;

   Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him

   He would reveal, but dare not.-Sir, be comforted. (Fletcher, Pilgrim, I. 2.)

7. (transitive) to force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly, impel

   The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days. (Swift, Gulliver's Travels, III. 8)

8. (transitive) to hasten, urge onward
9. (transitive) to urge, beseech, entreat

   God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name. (Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 35)

10. (transitive) to lay stress upon, emphasize

    If we read but a very little, we naturally want to press it all; if we read a great deal, we are willing not to press the whole of what we read, and we learn what ought to be pressed and what not. (M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, Pref.)

11. (ambitransitive) to throng, crowd
12. (transitive, obsolete) to print

Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

Derived terms

• press charges
• press on

Translations

See also

• hot press (baking, laundry)
• hot off the press (printing)
• press down

References

• Notes:

1. ^ Entry for the imperfect and past participle in Webster's dictionary

• press in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• “press” in OED Online, Oxford University Press, 1989.

Anagrams

• Anagrams of eprss
• RESPs