15 April 2013

segue

[sey-gwey, seg-wey]

verb, se·gued, se·gue·ing, noun
verb (used without object)

1. to continue at once with the next musical section or composition (often used as a musical direction).
2. to perform in the manner of the preceding section (used as a musical direction).
3. to make a transition from one thing to another smoothly and without interruption: ‘The conversation segued from travel anecdotes to food’.
noun
4. an uninterrupted transition made between one musical section or composition and another.
5. any smooth, uninterrupted transition from one thing to another.

Origin:
1850–55; < Italian: (there) follows, 3rd person singular present indicative of seguire ≪ Latin sequī to follow.

There is also the ‘Segway’, a two-wheeled, self-balancing, electric powered, personal transportation device.

Today’s aphorism

I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

– Tony Robbins

On this day

15 April 1452 – birthday of Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian renaissance inventor, painter, sculptor, mathematician, writer.

15 April 1865 – Death of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln after being shot the day before. Born 12 February 1809.

15 April 1912 – RMS Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton UK to New York City, USA, costing the lives of 1,502 people out of the 2,224 crew and passengers who were on board. The White Star Line, who owned the Titanic, had declared her unsinkable.