Question: Here is one sentence: I can feel the sadness in his poems.
Here is another sentence: He felt his flesh crawl.
Does the feel mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: different meanings

Question: Here is one sentence: I don't know how to break this to you, but your cat is not coming back.
Here is another sentence: News of her death broke in the morning.
Does the break mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: the same meaning

Question: Here is one sentence: The number of parameters is small.
Here is another sentence: I hope to become one of their number before I die.
Does the number mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: different meanings

Question: Here is one sentence: Stream of consciousness.
Here is another sentence: Two streams of development run through American history.
Does the stream mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer:
the same meaning