Press may refer to:
Media
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Print media or
news media
The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public. These include news agencies, print media (newspapers, news magazines), broadcast news (radio and television), and th ...
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Printing press
A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a printing, print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. It marked a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods in wh ...
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Press (newspaper) This is a list of newspapers named the ''Press''.
United States
* ''The Press'', a former name of ''The Press-Enterprise'', Riverside, California
* ''The Ridgefield Press'', Ridgefield, Connecticut, published weekly
* ''The Grand Rapids Press'', Gr ...
, a list of newspapers
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Press TV, an Iranian television network
People
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Press (surname)
Press is a surname with two unrelated origins. In England and Wales, it derives from Priest or Price. In Eastern Europe (especially centered around Minsk), it is a Jewish name, likely derived from the Sephardic surname Peres ( Perez, Peretz, Perut ...
, a family name of English and origin
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Press Cruthers
Charles Preston Cruthers (September 8, 1890 – December 27, 1976) was a second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Philadelphia Athletics. Listed at , 152 lb, Cruthers batted and threw right-handed. He was bo ...
(1890–1976), American Major League Baseball player
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Press Maravich (1915–1987), American basketball player and coach
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Press Taylor (born 1988), American football coach
Music
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The Press (band), a New York City Oi! band
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''Press'' (album), by MU330
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"Press" (Paul McCartney song)
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"Press" (Cardi B song)
Sports and fitness
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Bench press
The bench press, or chest press, is a weight training exercise in which the trainee presses a weight upwards while lying on a weight training bench. Although the bench press is a full-body exercise, the muscles primarily used are the pectorali ...
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Overhead press
The overhead press is an upper-body weight training exercise in which the trainee presses a weight overhead while seated or standing. It is mainly used to develop the anterior deltoid muscles of the shoulder. The standing version was once a compone ...
, the act of lifting a weight above the head
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Full-court press, a tactic in basketball
Other uses
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Machine press
A forming press, commonly shortened to press, is a machine tool that changes the shape of a work-piece by the application of pressure. The operator of a forming press is known as a press-tool setter, often shortened to tool-setter.
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, a machine tool that changes the shape of a work-piece by the application of pressure
* "the Press", colloquial name for
pressganging, a 17th- to 19th-century Royal Navy method of forced conscription
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''Press'' (TV series), a 2018 BBC One/PBS TV series
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''Press'' (film), a Turkish film
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Press Holdings, a UK holding company
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PRESS statistic, a statistic in regression analysis
See also
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Pressing (disambiguation)
Pressing may refer to:
* Pressing (association football), a defensive tactic
*Pressing (execution), a method of killing by crushing
*Pressing (metalworking), also known as stamping, a manufacturing process
*Pressing (wine), the extraction of juic ...
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