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mistransport en · NOUN

Etymology

From mis- + transport.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The act of mistransporting; transport of the wrong thing or to the wrong location.
   • Owing to the mistransport of debris into the works of the facility by the cyclic action of conventional screening apparatus, many plant operators favor the refitting of intake systems with alternative devices called dual-flow screens 1995, Oceanic Abstracts - Volume 32, Issues 2-4, page 83:
   • In leaves of the transgenic tobacco plant expressing the subunit Vc-GUS fusion protein, mistransport of the protein was not observed 1992, Norio Murata, Research in Photosynthesis, page 158:
   • Mistransport of pilin under conditions of SRP limitation would serve as confirmation of a role of the SRP in pilin transport, 2008, Kevin David Bruce Smith, Progress Toward Development of an in Vivo System to Assay Signal Recognition Particle Function in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, page 50:

mistransport en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + transport.

Meanings

1. To transport the wrong thing or to the wrong place.
   • Moreover, Na+K+-ATPase, a basolateral membrane protein, and Crumbs (Crb), a stalk membrane protein, were mistransported to the apical rhabdomeric microvilli in GPI-deficient photoreceptors. 2013, Cytoplasmic Structures, page 126:
   • One point made well to a hearer listening in the receptivity of a worshiping community means infinetely more to the life of faith than a classroom lecture on Christology mistransported to the sanctuary. 1987, Gabriel Fackre, The Christian Story - Volume 2, page 338:
   • The matter went back, I believed, to the letters. Who would be helped and who harmed when they were mistransported? 2002, Anne Perry, Much Ado about Murder, page 82:
2. To mislead by strong emotion.
   • In contrast, public expressions of a "private spirit" quickly lose the name of charity: "when men are so mistransported, either in opinions, or in actions,” they endanger their own salvation by “uncharitable thinking, that nobody can be saved that thinks otherwise.” 2012, James S. Baumlin, Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature, page 155:
   • And can ye then with patience think that any ingenuous Christian should be so far mistransported as to condemn a good prayer because, as it is in his heart, so it is in his book too ? 1863, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Joseph Hall, page 285:

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