- published: 25 Jul 2014
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A machine is a tool containing one or more parts that uses energy to perform an intended action. Machines are usually powered by mechanical, chemical, thermal, or electrical means, and are often motorized. Historically, a power tool also required moving parts to classify as a machine. However, the advent of electronics has led to the development of power tools without moving parts that are considered machines.
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.
The word machine derives from the Latin word machina, which in turn derives from the Greek (Doric μαχανά makhana, Ionic μηχανή mekhane "contrivance, machine, engine", a derivation from μῆχος mekhos "means, expedient, remedy").
A wider meaning of "fabric, structure" is found in classical Latin, but not in Greek usage.
This meaning is found in late medieval French, and is adopted from the French into English in the mid-16th century.
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)
What are we to do?
What are we to do?
(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)
What are we to do?
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)