segue

Plural: segues

Noun

the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another
An instance of segueing, a transition.

Verb

Verb Forms: segued, segueing, segues

To transition smoothly and directly from one topic or musical theme to another.
proceed without interruption; in music or talk
- "He segued into another discourse"
To move smoothly from one state or subject to another.
To make a smooth transition from one theme to another.
To play a sequence of records with no talk between them.

Examples

Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.
I can tell she’s going to segue from our conversation about school to the topic of marriage.
The clever player would segue from defense to offense with a single word.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Italian segue (“it follows”), from seguire (“to follow”), from Latin sequor; originally a term used in a musical score to indicate that the next movement or passage is to follow without a break. Cognate with Spanish seguir. Doublet of sue. Related to suit and sequence.

Synonyms

transition

Scrabble Score: 6

segue: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
segue: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
segue: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

segue: valid Words With Friends Word