Question: Here is one sentence: Their quarterback was a good scrambler.
Here is another sentence: Scramblers can often unnerve a better tennis player.
Does the scrambler mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: the same meaning

Question: Here is one sentence: The fields vegetate vigorously.
Here is another sentence: The bacterial growth vegetated along.
Does the vegetate mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: different meanings

Question: Here is one sentence: It will pay to wait.
Here is another sentence: He paid me 5000 pounds for the car.
Does the pay mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: different meanings

Question: Here is one sentence: We had a wonderful time at the party.
Here is another sentence: He had a time holding back the tears.
Does the time mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer:
the same meaning