单词 | misexpress |
释义 | misexpressv. 1. transitive. To express (oneself, an emotion) wrongly, badly, or inappropriately. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > misinterpret [verb (transitive)] > express wrongly misexpressc1718 misconvey1839 c1718 Life R. Frampton (1876) 122 If in such a royal auditory he had misexprest himself. 1847 F. A. Kemble Rec. Later Life III. 305 You have misunderstood me, or I misexpressed myself. 1987 A. Theroux Adultery 375 She misexpressed anger by temporarily crippling herself, a physiological mechanism of evasion that was literally self-prevention and bound up in an almost procedural intimacy with her failures with men. 2. transitive. Molecular Biology. To alter the normal expression of or abnormally express (a gene product or gene). ΚΠ 1988 Nature 23 June 737/1 This general strategy of misexpressing components involved in phototransduction allows one to dissect which properties of a photoreceptor are intrinsic to it and which are a function of the genetically transplanted component. 1995 Nature 9 Mar. 166/1 RP3 often incorrectly innervates neighbouring non-target muscle cells when these cells misexpress fasciclin III. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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