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mistransport

mistransport verb: to transport the wrong thing or to the wrong place.

Verb

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

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

Noun

mistransport (uncountable)

  1. The act of mistransporting; transport of the wrong thing or to the wrong location.
    • In leaves of the transgenic tobacco plant expressing the subunit Vc-GUS fusion protein, mistransport of the protein was not observed1992, 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 screens1995, Oceanic Abstracts - Volume 32, Issues 2-4, page 83

Examples of mistransport in a sentence

  • 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:
  • 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...

Forms of mistransport

third-person singular presentmistransports
present participlemistransporting
past participlemistransported
pastmistransported

Origin of mistransport

From mis- + transport.

Questions about mistransport

What does mistransport mean?
Mistransport means to transport the wrong thing or to the wrong place.
How do you use mistransport in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is mistransport?
Mistransport can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of mistransport?
The past tense of mistransport is mistransported.

Words near mistransport in the dictionary

  1. mistranslocated
  2. mistransmit
  3. mistransmits
  4. mistransmitted
  5. mistransmitting
  6. mistransport
  7. mistransported
  8. mistransporting
  9. mistransports
  10. mistranspose
  11. mistransposed

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