Question: Sentence 1: You would be a dingbat even to try it.
Sentence 2: Yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister.
Does dingbat mean the same thing in these two sentences?
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Answer: the same meaning

Question: Sentence 1: The airwaves carry the sound.
Sentence 2: Sound carries well over water.
Does carry mean the same thing in these two sentences?
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Answer: the same meaning

Question: Sentence 1: To lay a tax on land.
Sentence 2: This hen doesn't lay.
Does lay mean the same thing in these two sentences?
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Answer:
different meanings