segue

present singular third person segues · participle present segueing · participle past segued · past segued

1. 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.

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   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

   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

   Synonyms: transition

2. entertainmentTo make a smooth transition from one theme to another.

   Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.

3. To play a sequence of records with no talk between them.

plural segues · alternative segué

1. An instance of segueing, a transition.