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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
se·gue       [sey-gwey, seg-wey] Pronunciation Key verb, -gued, -gue·ing, noun
–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')  Pronunciation Key 
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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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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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segue

noun
1. the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another 

verb
1. proceed without interruption; in music or talk; "He segued into another discourse" 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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