It is possible only because the water is enclosed in millions of small compartments (tracheids and vessels).
A bento box is a lacquered wooden box with four small compartments and was derived from a farmer's seed box.
Two thousand people, many of them children, live in small compartments, separated only by thin metal walls.
They found that membrane vesicles -- small compartments used for storage, transport or digestion -- and other subcellular structures made their way from one cell to another through the tubes.
The interior of the main passenger cabin which was eighty feet long and twelve feet wide, and partitioned into small compartments.
— and uses the empty case to catch the stuff he's scooping from a jewelry box divided into a crazy-making number of small compartments.
The installation she designed with the architect Alan Baer consists of a succession of small compartments, many of them framed by beams that emphasize the pictorial architecture.
In small compartments, genetic instability, which confers a selective disadvantage for the cell, can spread by random drift.
