The column shaft is sometimes articulated with vertical hollow grooves known as fluting.

Placed on the stylobate are the vertical column shafts, tapering towards the top.

The Ionic order is also marked by an entasis, a curved tapering in the column shaft.

The ceiling arched at least thirty feet high and was supported by several fluted ionic column shafts.

It typically refers to the grooves running on a column shaft or a pilaster, but need not necessarily be restricted to those two applications.

The entablatures break forward over the columns and the wide central arch, and the profile of the column shafts transforms to square.

It is, in effect, a curved join between the column shaft and the slightly larger section of the column to which the shaft joins.

A wide stoa now needed an internal colonnade to support the roof; this was usually in the Ionic Order with tall column shafts.

This is surmounted by a low, conical wreath of acanthus leaves which meets the cylindrical column shaft approximately 6" above the vertical sides.

The middle section of the vertical element consists of a 9"-wide fluted column shaft topped by a capital, rising a total of 6'.

The column shafts are chamfered, rising from bases upon the floor, and the capitals of the smaller columns are squared with elliptical chamfered edges.

The capitals resting on the column shafts offer a wide variety of shapes and styles (Corinthian, Ionic, Composite, etc..)

Heavy columns and solid piers were replaced by slender, lofty piers encircled with clustered column shafts, terminating in small moulded or foliated capitals.

The entrance features a one bay, one story pedimented portico with plain balusters and column shafts with chamfered edges, known as a "West Virginia Porch."

The tower was built mostly in Ketton stone with a base of Mountsorrel granite, and incorporates column shafts made of polished Peterhead granite and serpentine.

Vitruvius also refers to a variation on the Doric Order which he calls Tuscan; this has an unfluted column shaft which stands upon an Ionic-type base (VII and VIII).

The six-bay portico features wooden column shafts topped with richly articulated cast iron capitals in the Greek Corinthian order of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates, an ancient monument in Athens.

Here, already on the Archaic temples, the lower parts of the column shafts were decorated by protruding relief decorations, originally depicting rows of figures, replaced on their late Classical and Hellenistic successors with mythological scenes and battles.

While the capital of the westernmost freestanding column is flush with the Cenacle's interior wall, the column shaft itself is completely independent of the wall, leading scholars to consider the possibility that this wall was not original to the building.

The cella's interior walls were decorated with a double order of column shafts in African marble, the lower one with a frieze representing stages of the battles included in the triple triumph of Octavian in 29 BC.