Question: Here is one sentence: Mount a theater production.
Here is another sentence: Mount a play.
Does the mount mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: the same meaning

Question: Here is one sentence: The course of the river.
Here is another sentence: The government took a firm course.
Does the course mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: different meanings

Question: Here is one sentence: Pay an obligation.
Here is another sentence: Pay a debt.
Does the pay mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: the same meaning

Question: Here is one sentence: Men first stepped on the moon in 1969.
Here is another sentence: The average distance to the Moon is 384,400 kilometers.
Does the moon mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer:
the same meaning