ばらばら
barabara
One lump comes apart into pieces: ばらばら
The picture Something that was held together as one lump comes loose and ends up lying about in separate pieces. ばらばら is coming apart and going each its own way; ぴったり is overlapping with no gap and becoming one.
Where the picture shows up in ばらばら
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smashed into pieces
落として、皿がばらばらになりました。
otoshite, sara ga barabara ni narimashita
I dropped it and the plate smashed to bits.
A plate hitting the floor and flinging white shards out in every direction
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order broken up
書類の順番がばらばらです。
shorui no junban ga barabara desu
The documents are all out of order.
A stack of pages thumbed through with the numbers running 3, 7, 1
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people arriving separately
みんなばらばらに来ました。
minna barabara ni kimashita
Everyone turned up at different times.
The door of the meeting place opening three separate times, one person coming in each time
Used adverbially as ばらばらに.
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opinions each its own way
意見がばらばらで、まだ決まりません。
iken ga barabara de, mada kimarimasen
Opinions are split, so nothing has been decided yet.
Five fingers around a meeting table, each pointing in a different direction
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taken apart on purpose
修理のために機械をばらばらにしました。
shuuri no tame ni kikai o barabara ni shimashita
I took the machine apart to fix it.
Screws and parts removed one by one and laid out on a bench, the empty shell beside them
ばらばらにする is scattering something deliberately.
All of it in one picture
Follow the scattered pieces and all five line up. A plate throwing shards across the floor is broken; page numbers jumbled out of order is a mess. People coming through the door one at a time arrived separately, and fingers pointing five different ways is a meeting that hasn't agreed. Screws and parts laid out on a bench is a machine taken apart.