The musician's set list segues perfectly from slow to more upbeat songs during his performance.
An example of to segue is to move from playing one song into another.
intransitive verb-·gued·, -·gue·ing
Origin of segueIt, 3d person; personal (grammar) singular , present tense indicative , of seguire, to follow from Vulgar Latin sequere, for Classical Latin sequi: see sequent
intransitive verbse·gued, se·gue·ing, se·gues
- Music To make a transition directly from one section or theme to another.
- To move smoothly and unhesitatingly from one state, condition, situation, or element to another: “Daylight segued into dusk” ( Susan Dworski )
Origin of segueFrom 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.
(third-person singular simple present segues, present participle segueing, simple past and past participle segued)
- 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.
- (music) To make a smooth transition from one theme to another.
- Beethoven's symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.
- (of a disk jockey) To play a sequence of records with no talk between them.
- An instance of segueing, a transition.