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A hostel is a form of low-cost, short-term shared sociable lodging where guests can rent a bed, usually a bunk bed in a dormitory sleeping 4–20 people, [1] with shared use of a lounge and usually a kitchen. [2] Rooms can be mixed or single-sex and have private or shared bathrooms. Private rooms may also be available.
The dormitories (shared accommodation as YHAI calls it) in hostels typically consist of a number of beds, often bunk beds, and many offer storage facilities such as lockers. Such rooms are a means of being able to offer cheaper accommodation for large numbers of people and typically contain 4 – 8 beds.
Triple loft bed; left, a loft bed with bookshelf below, right, a two-story bunk bed. A triple loft bed is an arrangement involving a total of three bunks. These bunks are a combination of bed types, where a loft bed is perpendicularly attached to a bunk bed to form an L-shape. The bunk or bunks above the lowest one may have rails to keep the ...
A brass-plated bed is a cheaper bed of iron with a thin covering of brass, which with time peels off and the iron is exposed. A bunk bed is two or more beds one atop the other. Bunk beds are used for adults in military barracks and in some ski lodges. Bunk beds are used for children and teens in summer camps.
Charpai (also, Charpaya, Charpoy, Khat, Khatla, Manja, or Manji) [1] is a traditional woven bed used across South Asia. The name charpai is a compound of char "four" and pay "footed". Regional variations are found in Afghanistan and Pakistan , North and Central India, Bihar and Myanmar .
The bunkbed conjecture (also spelled bunk bed conjecture) is a statement in percolation theory, a branch of mathematics that studies the behavior of connected clusters in a random graph. The conjecture is named after its analogy to a bunk bed structure. It was first posited by Pieter Kasteleyn in 1985. [1]
from khāṭ, खाट, a bed. Chowkat from chokath, چوکھٹ / चौखट, a door frame. Cummerbund ultimately from Persian via Hindi-Urdu कमरबन्द / کمربند, kamarband, – from kamar 'waist, loins' and -bandi 'band'. [5] [6] Cushy from Hindi-Urdu ख़ुशी / خوشی, k͟hushī, 'pleasure', from Persian خوش ...
Devanagari is a Unicode block containing characters for writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Bodo, Maithili, Sindhi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, among others.In its original incarnation, the code points U+0900..U+0954 were a direct copy of the characters A0-F4 from the 1988 ISCII standard.