Question: Here is one sentence: A riding academy.
Here is another sentence: Academies of literature and philology.
Does the academy mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: different meanings

Question: Here is one sentence: He left school before the end of term.
Here is another sentence: The term allowed to a debtor to discharge his debt.
Does the term mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: the same meaning

Question: Here is one sentence: The point guard drove toward the basket.
Here is another sentence: Let's play some basket.
Does the basket mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer: the same meaning

Question: Here is one sentence: The maths problem is a real snorter, isn't it?
Here is another sentence: The batsman succumbed to a snorter of short balls from the bowler and nicked a thin edge to the keeper.
Does the snorter mean the same thing in the two sentences?

Answer:
different meanings