seeing off; sending off; taking someone somewhere
Refers to accompanying, taking, or sending someone off, often as a ride, escort, or drop-off. 見送り is more specific for standing by and seeing someone depart.
I went to take my friend to the station.
I asked my older brother to take me to the station.
I am in charge of the morning drop-off at the nursery school.
funeral; sending off the dead
A limited or old-fashioned use connected with sending off the deceased; in modern everyday Japanese 葬儀 or 葬式 is more usual for 'funeral'.
In older writing, a funeral may be described as 送り.
Technical horological use for a clock or watch mechanism; 脱進機 is the more transparent specialist term.
In clock terminology, 送り can refer to the escapement mechanism.
Every morning I drop my child off.
葬儀 is the ordinary modern word for a funeral, while 送り in this sense is an old-fashioned, limited term for sending off the deceased.
脱進機 is the clear technical term for a clock escapement, while 送り is a specialized, less transparent word for the same mechanism.
送迎 covers both picking up and dropping off as a paired service, whereas 送り refers only to the sending-off or drop-off side.
seeing off; send-off · deferment; postponement; shelving · letting a pitch go by · wait-and-see attitude
pushing an opponent out of the ring from behind
postponement; putting off; delaying
send in; dispatch into
send out; forward; show out
allowance; remittance; sending money to support someone
fast forward
feed; sending in; loading
seeing off and picking up; taking to and fro
Standard kanji spelling; this is the noun form associated with 送る.
Nominal form of the verb 送る, 'to send; to escort; to see off'. The kanji spelling is the standard spelling associated with that verb.
send; deliver; escort
recipient; addressee; destination
ceremonial bonfire for sending off spirits during Obon
send back; return
sacrifice bunt
sender; consignor; remitter
invoice · consignment note; sender's copy; receipt of shipment
okurigana; kana suffix after a kanji
character advance; character pitch
shadow sending; staring at one's shadow then at the sky to see an afterimage
paying it forward
hand feeding; manual feeding
bear-sending ceremony; ritual bear sacrifice
rite of seeing off the gods to Izumo · exorcism
paper feed
torch procession to drive away crop pests
line feed; linefeed