What's the difference between headroom and system?

Headroom


Definition:

  • (n.) See Headway, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The government will be borrowing heavily over the next few years, so it’s a shame that they couldn’t use more of the fiscal headroom to encourage investment through measures such as raising the annual investment allowance, which could deliver productivity increases sooner.” Autumn Statement 2016: Most gains from post-2015 changes go to richest half of UK - live Read more Digital entrepreneur and investor Martin Leuw, who was CEO of IRIS Software for 10 years and now runs business accelerator Growth4Good , said: “ I can see how a reduction in corporation tax makes the UK an attractive place for inward investment.
  • (2) He added that the cost cutting undertaken in the past year by ITV provided a "financial platform, and headroom, to deliver change", with tranformation now the priority, rather than more savings – and increased investment likely in some areas.
  • (3) The US government runs out of borrowing headroom in under nine days time, and investors are now getting more edgy about what happens at one minute to midnight on October 17th .
  • (4) With 10-year gilt yields at a record low 1.5%, the markets are sending a clear signal that there is substantially more headroom for counter-cyclical fiscal stimulus.
  • (5) That legislation, or a version of it, could work its way into a broad agreement between the sides, although Republicans have rejected the idea of adding so much headroom.
  • (6) The company said it had headroom of about £1bn to make acquisitions.
  • (7) That has given us a financial platform, and headroom, to deliver change.
  • (8) Hunt said the commonwealth had already purchased 1,165 gigalitres of water, leaving 335 gigalitres of “headroom” before the new limit would be reached, but the government wanted to focus on improving farm water efficiency.
  • (9) It’s then up to the party or any government to look at that headroom and spending available, and look at where and how to spend it.” According to the Department for Work and Pensions , postponing an increase in the state retirement age from 66 to 67 would cost £6bn over eight years in Scotland and £74bn for the UK as a whole.
  • (10) Jill Rutter, the programme director of the Institute for Government, said: “To have a chancellor who is able to resist the temptation to spend every pound of fiscal headroom instantly is, in current circumstances given future uncertainties, a welcome development.
  • (11) True, in parts they could stretch up to 3ft 11in (119cm) – which is just about enough headroom for an Ewok.
  • (12) There is therefore more than enough headroom without our announced savings to cover the net cost of the higher education package,” he said.
  • (13) #gdndatamgmt September 10, 2014 Roger Tatoud (@B3EXECS) "data protectionism" from system managers and system providers is also a major obstacle to data collection, sharing and use #gdndatamgmt September 10, 2014 Chris King (@NorthernWrites) How do we create more headroom for change at board level?
  • (14) "That has given us a financial platform, and headroom, to deliver change.
  • (15) But don't expect to sit up in bed – the headroom doesn't allow for such luxuries.
  • (16) Thomas Cook feels it needs more headroom to be prudent," she said.
  • (17) There is headroom for further lending, Carney replies, but not infinite room, as there are dangers in offering such high loan-to-value loans.
  • (18) Buhlmann, speaking to MediaGuardian.co.uk, said that the £200m-plus deal did not mark a break in that strategy and that the company had plenty of headroom for further acquistions.
  • (19) Labor has revealed that its higher education policy would cost the budget nearly $14bn over the next decade, arguing there was “more than enough headroom” within its already announced savings measures to offset the spending.
  • (20) "What's strange about the period under scrutiny is they reported a massive profit warning and I know the trading team were encouraged to clear the decks to give the new chief executive some headroom, so they were being prudent and conservative in their guidance.

System


Definition:

  • (n.) An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects related by some common law, principle, or end; a complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational dependence or connection; a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing; as, a system of philosophy; a system of government; a system of divinity; a system of botany or chemistry; a military system; the solar system.
  • (n.) Hence, the whole scheme of created things regarded as forming one complete plan of whole; the universe.
  • (n.) Regular method or order; formal arrangement; plan; as, to have a system in one's business.
  • (n.) The collection of staves which form a full score. See Score, n.
  • (n.) An assemblage of parts or organs, either in animal or plant, essential to the performance of some particular function or functions which as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.
  • (n.) One of the stellate or irregular clusters of intimately united zooids which are imbedded in, or scattered over, the surface of the common tissue of many compound ascidians.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
  • (2) These factors might account for the lower systemic bioavailability of these compounds.
  • (3) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
  • (4) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
  • (5) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
  • (6) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
  • (7) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
  • (8) It is concluded that during exposure to simulated microgravity early signs of osteoporosis occur in the tibial spongiosa and that changes in the spongy matter of tubular bones and vertebrae are similar and systemic.
  • (9) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
  • (10) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
  • (11) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (12) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
  • (13) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
  • (14) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
  • (15) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
  • (16) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
  • (17) The results demonstrated that K2PtCl4 was bound to a greater degree than CDDP in this system with 3-5 and 1-2 platinum atoms respectively, bound per transferrin molecule.
  • (18) IgE-mediated acute systemic reactions to penicillin continue to be an important clinical problem.
  • (19) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
  • (20) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.