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train on

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train someone on something
to educate someone in the use of something. We trained him on the high diving board, but he isn't ready for competition yet. She trained herself on the computer so she could write a book.
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train something on (someone, something, or an animal)

to aim something at someone, something, or an animal. Dave trained the spotlight on Fred, who was just coming out of the building. Train your lens on that bush. There is a deer back there.
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The sun had fallen below the crest of the nearest wave of the prairie, leaving the usual rich and glowing train on its track.
She was in the train on her way to Southampton before she remembered its existence.
Towards the end of November, during a thaw, at nine o'clock one morning, a train on the Warsaw and Petersburg railway was approaching the latter city at full speed.
 
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