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Narrator: Today's word is "Sequence" — noun, pronounced /ˈsiːkwəns/, with the stress on "se".
Narrator: A sequence is a series of related things that follow each other in a particular order.
Narrator: In plain English, it is things in order.
Narrator: It comes from Latin sequentia, from sequi, to follow.
Narrator: A common collocation is "in sequence", which describes things done one after another.
Narrator: It differs from "series", because sequence stresses the order, while series stresses the group.
Narrator: In a second sense, a film sequence is a set of connected scenes, and a DNA sequence is an order of genes.
Narrator: Maths, genetics, film and programming all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a sequence is order that matters.
Speaker A: Why did the recipe fail?
Speaker B: Wrong SEQUENCE of steps! From Latin sequi, to follow.
Speaker A: I added eggs too early?
Speaker B: Before melting the butter.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Number the pages in sequence", organisation. "A thrilling chase sequence", film. "Scientists mapped the genome sequence", genetics.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Spell it with "-ence", "sequence".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Order is its cousin, series its twin, and chain an alternative — yet sequence keeps its orderly charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "sequence" in AI prompts — useful for workflows and maths tutoring.
Speaker A: How for workflows?
Speaker B: Order steps.
Prompt: Put these onboarding tasks in a logical sequence with dependencies.
Speaker A: And maths?
Speaker B: Patterns.
Prompt: Find the next three numbers in this sequence and explain the rule.
Speaker A: Could it help diagrams?
Speaker B: Yes, for systems.
Prompt: Draw a sequence diagram in Mermaid for a user logging in.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Email.
Prompt: Write a three-email welcome sequence for new subscribers.
Sequence — meaning in Arabic & definition More S courses GL Dictionary