Campaign vs. Drive — What's the Difference?

A series of military operations undertaken to achieve a large-scale objective during a war

Operate and control the direction and speed of a motor vehicle

To engage in an operation planned to achieve a certain goal

Propel or carry along by force in a specified direction

An operation or series of operations energetically pursued to accomplish a purpose

Urge or force (animals or people) to move in a specified direction

A series of operations undertaken to achieve a set goal.

(of a fact or feeling) compel (someone) to act in a particular way, especially one that is considered undesirable or inappropriate

The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.

A trip or journey in a car

(obsolete) An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills; a champaign.

An innate, biologically determined urge to attain a goal or satisfy a need

(obsolete) An excursion into the countryside.

An organized effort by a number of people to achieve a purpose

(intransitive) To take part in a campaign.

The transmission of power to machinery or to the wheels of a motor vehicle

(transitive) Consistently ride in races for a racing season.

(in ball games) a forceful stroke made with a free swing of the bat, racket, or foot against the ball

An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.

An act of driving a group of animals to a particular destination

A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field.

To push, propel, or press onward forcibly; urge forward

Political operations preceding an election, by candidates, their assistants, and supporters, for the purpose of convincing voters to vote for the candidate. It usually consists of one or more methods of contacting voters including advertising, distribution or mailing of printed leaflets or letters; speeches, interviews with news media, and door-to-door visits with potential voters.

To repulse or put to flight by force or influence

Any coordinated effort to contact potential supporters or customers and solicit their support or patronage; as, an advertising campaign.

To guide, control, or direct (a vehicle).

The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.

To convey or transport in a vehicle

To serve in a campaign.

To traverse in a vehicle

A race between candidates for elective office;

To supply the motive force or power to and cause to function

A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end;

To cause or sustain, as if by supplying force or power

Several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints)

To compel or force to work, often excessively

An overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa)

To force into or from a particular act or state

Run, stand, or compete for an office or a position;

To force to go through or penetrate

Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for;

To create or produce by penetrating forcibly

Go on a campaign; go off to war

To carry through vigorously to a conclusion

(Sports) To throw, strike, or cast (a ball, for example) hard or rapidly.

(Basketball) To move with the ball directly through

(Baseball) To cause (a run or runner) to be scored by batting. Often used with in.

(Football) To advance the ball over (certain yardage) in plays from scrimmage.

To chase (game) into the open or into traps or nets.

To search (an area) for game in such a manner.

To move along or advance quickly

To rush, dash, or advance violently against an obstruction

To operate a vehicle, such as a car

To go or be transported in a vehicle

(Sports) To hit, throw, or impel a ball or other missile forcibly.

(Basketball) To move directly to the basket with the ball.

(Football) To advance the ball in plays from scrimmage.

To make an effort to reach or achieve an objective; aim.

The act of driving

A trip or journey in a vehicle

Abbr. Dr. A road for automobiles and other vehicles.

The means or apparatus for transmitting motion or power to a machine or from one machine part to another.

The position or operating condition of such a mechanism

The means by which automotive power is applied to a roadway

The means or apparatus for controlling and directing an automobile

(Computers) A device that reads data from and often writes data onto a storage medium, such as an optical disc or flash memory.

A strong organized effort to accomplish a purpose

Energy, push, or aggressiveness

(Psychology) A strong motivating tendency or instinct related to self-preservation, reproduction, or aggression that prompts activity toward a particular end.

A massive, sustained military offensive.

(Sports) The act of hitting, knocking, or thrusting a ball very swiftly.

(Sports) The stroke or thrust by which a ball is driven

(Sports) The ball or puck as it is propelled

(Basketball) The act of moving with the ball directly to the basket.

(Football) A series of downs in which the ball is advanced by the offensive team.

A rounding up and driving of livestock to new pastures or to market.

A gathering and driving of logs down a river.

The cattle or logs thus driven.

Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.

Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.

An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.

(military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.

A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.

A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).

A driveway.

A type of public roadway.

(dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

(psychology) Desire or interest.

(computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.

(computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.

(golf) A stroke made with a driver.

A ball struck in a flat trajectory.

(cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.

(soccer) A straight level shot or pass.

(American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.

A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.

(retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.

(typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.

A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

(transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.

(transitive) To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.

To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.

To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.

(transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.

To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.

(transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.

(transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.

(transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.

To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

To operate (an aircraft).

(transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.

(transitive) To compel (to do something).

(transitive) To cause to become.

To hit the ball with a drive.

(intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

(transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.

(intransitive) To move forcefully.

(intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).

(transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.

(transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

(transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

(mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

(American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.

(obsolete) To distrain for rent.

(transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.

To be the dominant party in a sex act. en

To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.

To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.

To urge, impel, or hurry forward; to force; to constrain; to urge, press, or bring to a point or state; as, to drive a person by necessity, by persuasion, by force of circumstances, by argument, and the like.

To carry or; to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.

To clear, by forcing away what is contained.

To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.

To pass away; - said of time.

Specif., in various games, as tennis, baseball, etc., to propel (the ball) swiftly by a direct stroke or forcible throw.

To operate (a vehicle) while it is on motion, by manipulating the controls, such as the steering, propulsion, and braking mechanisms.

To rush and press with violence; to move furiously.

To be forced along; to be impelled; to be moved by any physical force or agent; to be driven.

To go by carriage; to pass in a carriage; to proceed by directing or urging on a vehicle or the animals that draw it; as, the coachman drove to my door.

To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; - usually with at.

To distrain for rent.

To make a drive, or stroke from the tee.

To go from one place to another in a vehicle, serving as the operator of the vehicle; to drive{9} a vehicle from one location to another.

In various games, as tennis, cricket, etc., the act of player who drives the ball; the stroke or blow; the flight of the ball, etc., so driven.

A stroke from the tee, generally a full shot made with a driver; also, the distance covered by such a stroke.

The act of driving; a trip or an excursion in a carriage, as for exercise or pleasure; - distinguished from a ride taken on horseback.

A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.

Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; esp., a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

In type founding and forging, an impression or matrix, formed by a punch drift.

A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

A private road; a driveway.

A strong psychological motivation to perform some activity.

A device for reading or writing data from or to a data storage medium, as a disk drive, a tape drive, a CD drive, etc.

An organized effort by a group to accomplish a goal within a limited period of time; as, a fund-raising drive.

A physiological function of an organism motivating it to perform specific behaviors; as, the sex drive.

The period during which one team sustains movement of the ball toward the opponent's goal without losing possession of the ball; as, a long drive downfield.

An act of driving a vehicle, especially an automobile; the journey undertaken by driving an automobile; as, to go for a drive in the country.

The mechanism which causes the moving parts of a machine to move; as, a belt drive.

The way in which the propulsive force of a vehicle is transmitted to the road; as, a car with four-wheel drive, front-wheel drive, etc.

Driven.

The act of applying force to propel something;

A mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine;

A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end;

A road leading up to a private house;

The trait of being highly motivated;

Hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver;

The act of driving a herd of animals overland

A journey in a vehicle driven by someone else;

A physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire

(computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium

A wide scenic road planted with trees;

(sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)

Operate or control a vehicle;

Travel or be transported in a vehicle;

Cause someone or something to move by driving;

Force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically;

To compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly;

Cause to move back by force or influence;

Compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment;

Push, propel, or press with force;

Cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force;

Strive and make an effort to reach a goal;

Move into a desired direction of discourse;

Have certain properties when driven;

Work as a driver;

Move by being propelled by a force;

Urge forward;

Proceed along in a vehicle;

Strike with a driver, as in teeing off;

Hit very hard and straight with the bat swinging more or less vertically;

Excavate horizontally;

Cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling;

Hunting: search for game;

Hunting: chase from cover into more open ground;