different between cliff vs chiff

English

From Middle English clyf, from Old English clif, from Proto-Germanic *klib?.

cliff (plural cliffs)

A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
Synonym: precipice
Hyponym: escarpment
Coordinate term: bluff
(figuratively) A point where something abruptly fails or decreases in value etc.

cliff (plural cliffs)

Onomatopoeic.

chiff (plural chiffs)

(music) The characteristic sound made as part of the attack of certain notes on the organ.
- 1998, Fletcher, N.H. and Rossing, T.D, The Physics of Musical Instruments, Springer Science & Business Media, page 570
  In all these adjustments, the voicer must have regard to the steady sound of the pipe, to its promptness of speech, and to the presence or absence of any desired starting transient or chiff.

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