What is the difference between a nimbostrautus cloud and stratus cloud?

Question

What is the difference between a nimbostrautus cloud and stratus cloud?

Answer 1

Nimbostratus clouds produce rain. Stratus clouds do not.

Answer 2

nimbostrautus are darker than stratus

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Stratus is the lowest(in terms of height) cloud and produces drizzle sometimes.In fact ,fog is nothing but stratus cloud on ground.

But nimbostratus forms at a height slightly more than stratus and gives continuous rain.