segue means An instance of segueing, a transition. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why this word is great
SEGUE — [Noun, Verb] A smooth, uninterrupted transition; to make such a transition from one state, subject, or piece to another. From the Italian segue ("it follows"), from seguire ("to follow"), from Latin sequor ("I follow"). Unlike a "transition" (a broad, often workmanlike shift) or an "interrupt" (a definitive breach of continuity), a segue is an act of connective grace, a discreet vanishing act of the join itself. It is the deejay's perfect crossfade where two beats become one, the conversational pivot that turns a complaint into a joke by way of a shared allusion, or the cinematic dissolve from a closing door to a rising sun—a quiet mastery over the inherent fractures of experience, insisting there are no true endings, only continuations waiting to be heard.
noun
- An instance of segueing, a transition.
verb
- To move smoothly from one state or subject to another.“I can tell she’s going to segue from our conversation about school to the topic of marriage.”
- To make a smooth transition from one theme to another.“Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.”
- To play a sequence of records with no talk between them.