mistransport

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verb

To transport the wrong thing or to the wrong place.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verbmistransport (third-person singular simple present mistransports, present participle mistransporting, simple past and past participle mistransported)

present singular third person mistransports · participle present mistransporting · participle past mistransported · past mistransported

  1. To transport the wrong thing or to the wrong place.

    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
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    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

    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
  2. To mislead by strong emotion.

    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
    1 more example

    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
nounmistransport (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe act of mistransporting; transport of the wrong thing or to the wrong location.

    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
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    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

    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

Origin

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