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se⋅gue

  [sey-gwey, seg-wey] verb, -gued, -gue⋅ing, noun
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–verb (used without object)
1. to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).
2. to perform in the manner of the preceding section (used as a musical direction).
3. to make a transition from one thing to another smoothly and without interruption: The conversation segued from travel anecdotes to food.
–noun
4. an uninterrupted transition made between one musical section or composition and another.
5. any smooth, uninterrupted transition from one thing to another.
Origin:
1850–55; < It: (there) follows, 3rd pers. sing. pres. ind. of seguire ≪ L sequī to follow. See sue
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se·gue   (sěg'wā', sā'gwā')   
intr.v.   se·gued, se·gue·ing, se·gues
  1. Music To make a transition directly from one section or theme to another.
  2. To move smoothly and unhesitatingly from one state, condition, situation, or element to another: "Daylight segued into dusk" (Susan Dworski).
n.  An act or instance of segueing.

[From Italian, there follows, third-person sing. present tense of seguire, to follow, from Vulgar Latin *sequere, from Latin sequī; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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segue 
1740, an instruction in musical scores, from It. segue, lit. "now follows," meaning to play into the following movement without a break, third person sing. of seguire "to follow," from L. sequi "to follow," from PIE *sekw- "to follow" (see sequel). Extended noun sense of "transition without a break" is from 1937; the verb in this sense is first recorded 1958.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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