Warfare vs. Battle — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Warfare and Battle
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Warfare
The waging of war against an enemy; armed conflict.
Battle
A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles.
Warfare
Military operations marked by a specific characteristic
Guerrilla warfare.
Chemical warfare.
Battle
A fight between two armed forces, usually on a large scale
An important battle in the Pacific campaign.
Warfare
A state of disharmony or conflict; strife
Constant spousal warfare in the household.
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Battle
Armed fighting; combat
Wounded in battle.
Warfare
Acts undertaken to destroy or undermine the strength of another
Political warfare.
Battle
A match between two combatants
Trial by battle.
Warfare
The waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy.
Battle
A protracted controversy or struggle
Won the battle of the budget.
Warfare
Military operations of some particular kind e.g. guerrilla warfare.
Battle
An intense competition
A battle of wits.
Warfare
To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
Battle
To engage in or as if in battle.
Warfare
Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel.
This day from battle rest;Faithful hath been your warfare.
Battle
To fight against
Battled the enemy.
Battled cancer.
Warfare
Contest; struggle.
The weapons of our warfare are not carnal.
Battle
A contest, a struggle.
The battle of life
Warfare
To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
Battle
(military) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; a combat, an engagement.
Warfare
The waging of armed conflict against an enemy;
Thousands of people were killed in the war
Battle
A division of an army; a battalion.
Warfare
An active struggle between competing entities;
A price war
A war of wits
Diplomatic warfare
Battle
The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
Battle
Battle buddy
Battle
(intransitive) To join in battle; to contend in fight
Scientists always battle over theories.
She has been battling against cancer for years.
Battle
(transitive) To fight or struggle; to enter into a battle with.
She has been battling cancer for years.
Battle
To feed or nourish (someone or something).
Battle
To render (land, soil, etc.) fertile or fruitful.
Battle
Improving; nutritious; fattening.
Battle grass, battle pasture
Battle
Fertile; fruitful.
Battle soil, battle land
Battle
A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.
Battle
A struggle; a contest; as, the battle of life.
The whole intellectual battle that had at its center the best poem of the best poet of that day.
Battle
A division of an army; a battalion.
The king divided his army into three battles.
The cavalry, by way of distinction, was called the battle, and on it alone depended the fate of every action.
Battle
The main body, as distinct from the van and rear; battalia.
Battle
To join in battle; to contend in fight; as, to battle over theories.
To meet in arms, and battle in the plain.
Battle
To assail in battle; to fight.
Battle
A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;
Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
He lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
Battle
An energetic attempt to achieve something;
Getting through the crowd was a real struggle
He fought a battle for recognition
Battle
An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph
Police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs
Battle
Battle or contend against in or as if in a battle;
The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Nothern Iraq
We must combat the prejudices against other races
They battled over the budget
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