- published: 25 Jul 2014
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A machine is a tool consisting of one or more parts that is constructed to achieve a particular goal. Machines are powered devices, usually mechanically, chemically, thermally or electrically powered, and are frequently motorized. Historically, a device required moving parts to classify as a machine; however, the advent of electronics technology has led to the development of devices without moving parts that are considered machines.
The word "machine" is derived from the Latin word machina, which in turn derives from the Doric Greek μαχανά (machana), Ionic Greek μηχανή (mechane) "contrivance, machine, engine" and that from μῆχος (mechos), "means, expedient, remedy". The meaning of machine is traced by the Oxford English Dictionary to an independently functioning structure and by Merriam-Webster Dictionary to something that has been constructed. This includes human design into the meaning of machine.
A simple machine is a device that simply transforms the direction or magnitude of a force, but a large number of more complex machines exist. Examples include vehicles, electronic systems, molecular machines, computers, television and radio.
Old machinery's broken down
There's no new past, there's no new sound
What would you do if they crumbled to the ground
Wake up, you must be dreaming
Changes in our lives
We'll make it in the end
Machinery's broken in two
What are we to do?
Where were you when the day caved in
It seems the streets were the place to be
Something quite disturbing filled the air
Wake up, you must be dreaming, what an uneasy feeling
Machine fell down and smashed the ground
People cried for miles around
Well, that's what someone said
Wake up, you must be dreaming, a quite uneasy feeling
Changes in our lives
We'll make it in the end
Machinery's broken in two
What are we to do?
Changes in our lives
We'll make it in the end
Machinery's broken in two
What are we to do?
What are we to do?
What are we to do?
What are we to do?
What are we to do?
Changes in our lives
We'll make it in the end
Machinery's broken in two
What are we to do?
When the day came by, I looked about
You were nowhere to be found
What are we to do?
(Wake up, you must be dreaming)
What are we to do?
What are we to do?
(Wake up, you must be dreaming)
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(Wake up, you must be dreaming)
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What are we to do?
(Wake up, you must be dreaming)
What are we to do?
What are we to do?
(Wake up, you must be dreaming)