What's the difference between a solar flare & coronal mass ejection ?

Question: Or are they the same thing ??

Answer:
Flares fall back to the sun from gravity. CME's get flung off and fly away. Other than that I believe they are the same material.

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I think that the main difference is size. A flare is a common occurrence, and is relatively small (flares are often bigger than the Earth, so small is relative here).

The mass ejection, I think, is a really big flare.

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A flare is an explosion in the Sun's atmosphere and a coronal mass ejection is the mass that gets thrown off into space as a result.

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