| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| |
| segue |
| |
| SYLLABICATION: | se·gue |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s g w  , sgw |
| INTRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: se·gued, se·gue·ing, se·gues
1. Music To make a transition directly from one section or theme to another. 2. To move smoothly and unhesitatingly from one state, condition, situation, or element to another: “Daylight segued into dusk” (Susan Dworski). | | NOUN: | An act or instance of segueing. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Italian, there follows, third-person sing. present tense of seguire, to follow, from Vulgar Latin *sequere, from Latin sequ . See sekw-1 in Appendix I.
| | |
| |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
