Comparent

Noun. A parent who compares their child to other children often is a non positive way. Comparing a child to another child in the hopes that child will act similarly to the child they are compared to.

Verb. Comparenting

Joe tells his Mother to stop being a comparent when she tells him Jim's Mother says Jim cleans his room without being told to.

Comparent by Leah_Dav July 22, 2024

Comparent

When a parent compares their child with another
Noun: Comparent
Verb: Comparenting
Adjective: Comparenty

Joe's Mother tells him he should clean his room every day like Bob's Mother tells her Bob does. Joe tells her "stop being a comparent, you are always comparenting"

Comparent by Leah_Dav July 25, 2024

compretend

When someone seems to be comprehending directions or instructions but it turns out that they are just pretending.

My boss just explained the project to me and I nodded like I understood, but I was just compretending.

compretend by CaptainRong1 December 23, 2013

Go Compare 

Probably the world's most annoying TV advert! It features a fat opera singer singing the words "Go Compare" to the tune of "Over There."

They are trying to advertise a car insurance price comparison site but I fail to see what this crap has to do with that.
It was also voted the most irritating advert of 2009 and at the rate this is going it'll probably get that title in 2010!

Singer: "Go Compare, Go Compaaaare!"
Guy watching TV: *grabs remote and hits the mute button* "SHUT THE HELL UP!!"

Go Compare by I H8 GoCompare April 25, 2010

compartmentalised traffic window 

Rush hour - this term is frequently used by members of FVS to describe rush hour traffic.

In order to implement a comprehensive traffic management programme, you must first assess the compartmentalised traffic windows.

compartmentalised traffic window by HNAG March 16, 2010

comparand 

A thing that may be or is being compared to something else.

In the Boolean expression x < y+2, x and y+2 are the two comparands.

comparand by Teeesen October 19, 2012

logic-tight compartment 

The all-too-human capacity of intellectually separating important, foundational , even life-defining beliefs onto a practical "thinking landscape" of very different measures of truth criteria.

OK, so he's a neurosurgeon and completely understands the science that dead brains can't form memories and that strokes damage the nervous system in very specific, predictable ways; yet he persists in maintaining that the bible is literal truth...clearly, he must be relying on some logic-tight compartments to avoid massive confirmation bias.

logic-tight compartment by YAWA July 9, 2017