To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing toward (someone); to talk down to (someone).
To come down from one's superior position; to deign (to do something).
To treat (someone) as though inferior; to be patronizing (toward someone); to talk down (to someone).
To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
An error; a blunder.
A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.