Greek Doric - square without chamfer or molding
Greek Ionic - thinner with ovolo molding only
Roman Ionic and Corinthian - the sides are hollowed on plan and have the angles cut off ...
On a Greek Doric column, an ovolo or wide convex moulding below the abacus or top part of the capital.Edge railOn a railway, a rail on which flanged wheels can run. Compare plate rail.
In the Greek Doric capital it is the space between the annulets of the echinus and the grooves which marked the junction of the shaft and capital; in some early examples, as in the basilica and temple of Ceres at Paestum and the temple at Metapontum, ...
The Greek doric had no base, the Romans added one. Shafts are fluted, numbers vary, but there are usually around twenty. The height of the column is between four-and-and-a-quarter and eight diameters.
Rectangular block under the soffit of the cornice of the Greek Doric temple, which is studded with guttae.
The oldest and probably most widely used pillar, the Greek Doric Order, is the simplest of ancient colonnade.
This house is essentially Georgian in inspiration, but the Greek Doric order portico places it firmly in the Classical Revival category.
In Greek Doric temples, the length and width of the stylobate were related, and in some early Doric temples the column height was one third the width of the stylobate.
Abacus - The flat slab on the top of a capital: in Greek Doric a tick square slab; in Greek Ionic, Tuscan, Roman Doric and Ionic, square with the lower edge moulded; in Corinthian and Composite with concave sides and the corners cut off.
Greek Doric capitals are fluted and plain, Roman Doric capitals are smooth and plain, Ionic capitals have a rams horns at all four corners, and a Corinthian capital is highly decorative with curling acanthus leaves.
Some say that Tuscan was a primitive style that came before the famous Greek Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders.
Doric One of five classical orders, recognizable by its simple capital. The Greek Doric column has a fluted shaft and no base; the Roman Doric column may be fluted or smooth and rests on a molded base.
Base (cf. pedestal, plinth) - The lowest part of a column, (unless the base rests on a pedestal). Greek Doric columns uniquely have no base.
Roman order columns - Composite (capital is half Corinthian and half Ionic), Roman Doric (similar to Greek Doric), and Tuscan (non-fluted, not decorated).
For columns, the base is the lowest portion of three parts, from top to bottom: the base, the shaft and the captical. Typically, Egyptian columns and Greek Doric columns have no base and are placed directly on the floor.
 See also: Doric, Greek, Roman, Capital, Architecture
  
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