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.
Meanings
An instance of segueing, a transition.
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segué
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segway
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segues
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Translations (19)
es transición (an instance of segueing, a transition) · de Übergang (an instance of segueing, a transition) · de Überleitung (an instance of segueing, a transition) · nl bruggetje (an instance of segueing, a transition) · gl transición (an instance of segueing, a transition) · pt transição (an instance of segueing, a transition) · sv övergång (an instance of segueing, a transition) · fi siirtymä (an instance of segueing, a transition) · ro tranziție (an instance of segueing, a transition) · ru пла́вный перехо́д (an instance of segueing, a transition) · pt passagem (an instance of segueing, a transition) · hu átváltás (an instance of segueing, a transition) · fr transition (an instance of segueing, a transition) · da overgang (an instance of segueing, a transition) · cs přechod (an instance of segueing, a transition) · nl overgang (an instance of segueing, a transition) · hu átmenet (an instance of segueing, a transition) · ru се́гуэ (an instance of segueing, a transition) · hu átvezetés (an instance of segueing, a transition)
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.
Meanings
To move smoothly from one state or subject to another.
I don't even know how you would start to do the cleanup work even though it's very much necessary. So then that also leads me to be like, are there people that we could talk to within the movement that could create tools or automations or how are those even informed in the first place? I mean, just to segue slightly, there's been a lot of conversation about Wikimania, about AI in general in varying different ways, and that's more or less what this is, is AI being like, a woman with a microphone is an artist or an entertainer, and so how do we retrain or do the cleanup of this AI to be more accurate? 2024, Kira Wisniewski, Making structured data more accessible:
I can tell she’s going to segue from our conversation about school to the topic of marriage.
Then, in a staggering display of empathy for the deceased lacking, this friend segues to the narcissist nub of the matter: "Omg wat if yu get arrested b4 yur bdai." 2009 March 10, Rosie DiManno, “Murder reduced to infantile online postings”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2009:
To make a smooth transition from one theme to another.
Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.
(of a disc jockey) To play a sequence of records with no talk between them.
pt passar para (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · fi liukua (music: to move smoothly from one theme to another) · nl van thema wisselen (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · de wechseln (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · cs volně přecházet (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · hu átvált (music: to move smoothly from one theme to another) · fi sujuvasti (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · fi huomaamatta (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · gl ligar (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · gl encadear (to play a sequence of records without talking in between) · fi siirtyä juohevasti (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · gl enlazar (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · fr enchaîner (to play a sequence of records without talking in between) · gl encadear (music: to move smoothly from one theme to another) · ru пла́вно переходи́ть (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · fr enchaîner (music: to move smoothly from one theme to another) · gl encadear (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · hu átvált (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · hu átsiklik (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · hu áttér (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · fr enchaîner (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · fi soittaa putkeen (to play a sequence of records without talking in between) · cs volně přejít (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · ru продолжа́ть та́к же (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · de überleiten (music: to move smoothly from one theme to another) · cs volně přecházet (music: to move smoothly from one theme to another) · de überleiten (to move smoothly from one topic to another) · cs volně přejít (music: to move smoothly from one theme to another)