segue

Etymology

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.

verb

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.
2. (music) To make a smooth transition from one theme to another.
   Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.
3. (of a disk jockey) To play a sequence of records with no talk between them.

noun

1. An instance of segueing, a transition.