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What is the difference between campaign and operation?

campaign | operation |

In obsolete terms the difference between campaign and operation

is that campaign is an open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign while operation is effect produced; influence.

As nouns the difference between campaign and operation

is that campaign is a series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal while operation is the method by which a device performs its function.

As a verb campaign

is to take part in a campaign.

campaign

English

(wikipedia campaign)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.
    • an election campaign'''; a military '''campaign
    The company is targeting children in their latest advertising campaign .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 9 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign .}}
  • (obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.
    • (Grath)
  • The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.

    • Derived terms

    * advertising campaign * election campaign * military campaign * political campaign * rumor campaign * whisper campaign

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take part in a campaign.
    • She campaigned for better social security.
    * {{quote-news , year=2012 , date=April 19 , author=Josh Halliday , title=Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised? , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.}}

    operation

    English

    (wikipedia operation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The method by which a device performs its function.
    • It is dangerous to look at the beam of a laser while it is in operation .
  • The method or practice by which actions are done.
  • The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
  • * John Locke
    • The pain and sickness caused by manna are the effects of its operation on the stomach.
  • * Dryden
    • Speculative painting, without the assistance of manual operation , can never attain to perfection.
  • A planned undertaking.
    • The police ran an operation to get vagrants off the streets.
    The ''Katrina'' relief operation was considered botched.
  • A business or organization.
    • We run our operation from a storefront.
    They run a multinational produce-supply operation .
  • (medicine) a surgical procedure.
    • She had an operation to remove her appendix.
  • (computing, logic, mathematics) a procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands).
  • (military) a military campaign (e.g. )
  • (obsolete) Effect produced; influence.
  • * Fuller
    • The bards had great operation on the vulgar.

    Synonyms

    * (mathematics) * (mathematics)

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