mistransport

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ transport

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.
   • 1987, Gabriel Fackre, The Christian Story - Volume 2, page 338:

     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.

   • 2002, Anne Perry, Much Ado about Murder, page 82:

     The matter went back, I believed, to the letters. Who would be helped and who harmed when they were mistransported?

   • 2013, Cytoplasmic Structures, page 126:

     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.

2. To mislead by strong emotion.
   • 1863, Joseph Hall, The Works of the Joseph Hall, page 285:

     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 ?

   • 2012, James S. Baumlin, Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature, page 155:

     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.”

Noun

mistransport (uncountable)

1. The act of mistransporting; transport of the wrong thing or to the wrong location.
   • 1992, Norio Murata, Research in Photosynthesis, page 158:

     In leaves of the transgenic tobacco plant expressing the subunit Vc-GUS fusion protein, mistransport of the protein was not observed

   • 1995, Oceanic Abstracts - Volume 32, Issues 2-4, page 83:

     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 alterative devices called dual-flow screens

   • 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 of pilin under conditions of SRP limitation would serve as confirmation of a role of the SRP in pilin transport,