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Meaning of mistransport | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To transport the wrong thing or to the wrong place.
  2. To mislead by strong emotion.

Examples

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

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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