Well, to "derate" is to lower the electrical capacity on appliances, so I think to "cake derate" which a cake derator would do is to either lower the edibility or visual-decency capacity on cakes... right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of Trouble] Reference

And you bribed him to derate Una Sinclair -- an official of the incorruptable Board of Eugenics!.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Too Many Boards" by Harl Vincent, part 5] Reference

In France there is a proverb, "Courir comme un derate.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Only since it is a bit old, think whether it is needed to derate it.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"Verb 1. derate - lower the rated electrical capability of electrical apparatus".    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

Were I to give a model. of an excellent confe - derate republic, I ftiould pitch upon that of Lycia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States of America: With that Constitution ...] Reference

In addition, the 12V275GL+ operates at full load with no derate at higher altitudes than competitive models.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Wire Travel News] Reference

The candidate most acceptable to the M.derate Republicans was M. Jules Ferry, but he was unpopular with the Radicals.    From Wordnik.com.  [France in the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Ceradiodes function constantly up to an operating temperature of 85C, whereas semiconductor diodes begin to derate at 25C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Electronicstalk - electronics industry news] Reference

We cannot be too Careful, and Conji derate what Vows, and Promises we make; for the very Granting of our Prayers turns many times to our Utter Ruine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions.] Reference

Protection features include auto recovery from overload, short circuit and over temperature, and the operating temperatures range from -20 to 70C by convection (derate -2.5 per cent/C from 50 to 70C).    From Wordnik.com.  [Electronicstalk - electronics industry news] Reference

A.M. M.derate: at 5 unmoored ship and worked out of the Cove: at 6 came to abreast the Green Island: at 9 worked out of Harbour, Government boat assisting: at 10 made all sail: at noon the Seal Rocks bore south distant 5 miles: all sail set for.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant] Reference

The Roman Hiftory. derate advifed the people to defer all proceedings againft theconfuls, till their confulate was expired, and, in the mean time, to profecute, with the utmoft rigour, tbofe patricians, who had aiBfted them in the infult they had committed on the perfons of the tribunes.    From Wordnik.com.  [An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time] Reference

A mo-derate calculation of the family — circumstances, no man should think of addressing a daughter of Sir Thomas Grandison, without supposing himself intitled, either by his merits or fortune, to expect 10,0001. with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference

Preferential price, derate 50% at least.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Stories | The New York Observer] Reference

1250: soule; there's not so much left to furnish out a mo-derate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timon of Athens (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference

If not, the effect is to derate the battery.    From Wordnik.com.  [eHam.net News] Reference

Kind, consi-derate (irandison!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference